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I am trying to decide between an Intel i3 i3-2357M and an AMD e-350 CPU for a cheap ultraportable.

One scenario for me is the virtualization of small networks (2-3 VMs) unter Linux using kvm/qemu.

I am not a hardware guy and I find it hard to interprete the available benchmarks for the CPUs...

Can someone please give me some advice on which bechmarks would be most relevant and how to properly interpret them for my use-case.

I am aware that the i3 is better for this purpose, I simply want to understand if spending the extra money would be justified for me.

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With virtulization cpu is usually not a problem, I would rather check disk/io performance with something like iometer and the workload you would like to run on your virtual machines.

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http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=AMD+E-350

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-2357M+%40+1.30GHz

Get the Intel, 'nuff said. Running multiple VMs, you will most likely want the extra processing power. And if you're interested, this is where those numbers come from (an all-around system performance test, including memory/CPU performance).

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