AMD FX-6100 Vs. A8-7410

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I have a PC running with an AMD FX-6100 CPU (and 8Gb RAM). When I am using the software Sonar on my PC for a particular heavy project, CPU usage goes up to about 13% tops and RAM usage stays about 3Gb (as reported by Task Manager). For a short amount of time that I will be away from home I want to buy a cheap laptop that will do the job in Sonar while travelling. The laptop I have come across is loaded with 8Gb Ram and an AMD A8-7410 CPU.

I want to know whether Sonar will be able to efficiently work on this CPU without any problems?

According to the link below, I see that FX-6100 is almost 80% faster than A8-7410, so I am just wondering, if Sonar is using up about 13% of FX-6100's power, will A8-7410 be able to run Sonar as fast without any problems/freezes/etc.?

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-FX-6100-vs-AMD-A8-7410-APU/1984vsm33754
 
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Any model equipped with an i5 5200U -and above- would perform just as well in a single-threaded environment as the FX-6100. The A8-7410, while markedly less powerful as you pointed out yourself, might as well do the job, but it is quite an inefficient processor compared to the similarly priced 5200U that makes it an unlikely contender in the same price-range.
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The amd apu chips are relatively good for graphics, but not so good in compute.
Single thread passmark rating of the AMD A8-7410 is 917.
It is likely that your app is single threaded.
A single threaded app will be spread across all 6 threads of your FX-6100, so a single threaded app would average out to that 13% you see.

Look for a laptop with an intel chip for better single threaded performance.
You can check the single threaded passmark performance to compare.
 
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Any model equipped with an i5 5200U -and above- would perform just as well in a single-threaded environment as the FX-6100. The A8-7410, while markedly less powerful as you pointed out yourself, might as well do the job, but it is quite an inefficient processor compared to the similarly priced 5200U that makes it an unlikely contender in the same price-range.
 
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