The Standard Electrical Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: This term is used to express arrangements of electrical connections for giving the largest quantity of current, as a quantity armature, meaning one wound for low resistance. A battery is connected in quantity when the cells are all in parallel.
I would say that an A8-4500 running at 2.8GHz would be about equal to an Intel mobile CPU running at 2.2GHz - 2.3GHz, but that's a rough estimate. Individual tasks can vary though. The A8-4500 is a quad core CPU while most mobile Intel CPUs that would compete with the A8-4500 on price would be dual core CPUs.
1 As of November 12, 2015, Intelâs fastest Core i5 processor is the Core i5-6600K with a maximum turbo clock rate of 3.9 GHz, while AMDâs FX 8370 has a maximum turbo clock rate of 4.2 GHz.  The AMD FX 8000 and 9000 Series CPUs have 2x the maximum multithreading capacity of Intelâs Core i5 Series CPUs.