AMD positions its top-of-the-line A10 series against Intel's lower-end Core i7 and higher-end Core i5 chips. Yet an Ivy Bridge mid-range i5-2410M had a 25% CPU performance advantage over the Trinity A10-4600, according to 's comparisons using PCMark.

VR Zone is frank in its assessment, calling Trinity's single threaded applications and raw memory performance "abysmal."

Still, AnandTech says Trinity's new is a step forward from the CPU cores used in Llano. Trinity was about 20 percent faster than Llano in the reviewer's general CPU performance tests--close to AMD's 25 percent promise.

(Intel's Ivy Bridge CPU gains over its Sandy Bridge processor were also modest: About 5 to 10 percent faster in .)

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