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AMD A10-6800K Review – Richland-Based Desktop APU (Part 3)

8/25/2013 11:12:19 AM

Computing performance

To estimate the average performance of our today’s testing participant version, we use a new Futuremark PCMark 8 benchmark. It uses three test scenarios: Home, Work and Creative, and all three parts of our today’s test. I want to point out that Futuremark performs some heterogeneity algorithms in their benchmark utility that can take advantage of the potential of the integrated graphics cores for the calculation via OpenCL. We do not disable this feature deliberately in our test sessions.

PC Mark 8, Home

PC Mark 8, Home

PC Mark 8, Work

PC Mark 8, Work

PC Mark 8, Creative

PC Mark 8, Creative

The next diagram shows one of the intermediate points from the benchmark - Futuremark 3DMark Fire Strike Physics Score. This score shows the system speed can complete a special gaming physical exam that the behavior of a complex system with a large number of objects in it.

3Dmark Fire Strike, Physics

3Dmark Fire Strike, Physics

To test the performance of the platform in office task we have to resort to a special test script from Futuremark that simulates typical actions of users in Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft Excel 2010 and Microsoft PowerPoint 2010.

Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office 2010

The performance in the internet applications is tested by using Futuremark Peacekeeper browser benchmark avails all the latest web technologies. We offer this standard in Google Chrome 27 browser.

Chrome 27, Peacekeeper

Chrome 27, Peacekeeper

To test the processor performance of the data storage, we break with WinRAR 5.0 archiving utility. Use maximum compression ratio we store a folder with multiple files with a total capacity of 1.1 GB. The following chart shows the time it took to complete in seconds.

WinRAR 5.0, sec

WinRAR 5.0, sec

We use Cinebench 11.5 benchmark specifically to test the speed of rendering in Maxon Cinema 4D from the professional software.

Cinebench 11.5, Rendering

Cinebench 11.5, Rendering

To measure the speed, our testing participants products can transcode the video into H.264 format, we use x264 FHD Benchmark 1.0.1 (64 bit). It works with a MPEG-4/AVC video that is originally recorded at a resolution of 1,920x1,080 @ 50fps with 30 Mbps bitrate. I can say that the results of this experiment are great practical value, because the x264 codec is also a part of many popular transcoding utilities, such as HandBrake, MEGui, VirtualDub, etc.

x264 FHD Benchmark

x264 FHD Benchmark

We benchmark the CPUs in Adobe Photoshop CS6 using our custom test script. The results on the graph represent the time required to complete this test in seconds.

Adobe Photoshop CS6

Adobe Photoshop CS6

On average, all benchmark processes aim to general purpose performance of the processor cores, indicate that the A10-6800K is faster than the A10-5800K only 5%. It perfectly illustrates the fact that there is no improvement of any structure in the calculation of the APU. Improved performance we saw in the new APU platform socket FM2 based on Richland design that is connected directly to an increase in their clock frequency.

In general, we can say a similar result about the performance of the A10-6800K processor in the new traditions general-purpose applications as we said before. Pile driver micro-architecture is not very efficient with the low load multithreaded processor so if it does not create parallel processes, A10-6800K falls behind Core i3 and Core i5 from Ivy Bridge generation. AMD APU can only break this pattern in two completely different cases. It is, or should be in low load flow case, where the quad core A10-6800K can do better at least the dual-core Core i3-3225, or in some computing applications can be forwarded to the graphics cores. In this benchmark group it will be PCMark 8, so Richland gets ahead of Core i3-3225 as well as Core i5-3330 in a number of its test scripts.

3D graphics performance

Gaming performance is estimated from the synthetic 3DMark Fire Strike benchmark as well as from the average fps index in real games like Metro: Last Light, F1 2012, Tomb Raider (2013), Hitman: Absolution, and Battlefield 3. We use two test modes: 1,366x768 resolution with average image quality and 1,920x1,080 resolution with maximum image quality settings. Note that we add the results to the Core i7-4770K for you reference, this will allow us to get a rough idea of what the latest Intel HD Graphics 4600 core in the Haswell processor is capable of doing.

3Dmark Fire Strike

3Dmark Fire Strike

Battlefield 3

Battlefield 3

Battlefield 3, 1920x1080 LQ

Battlefield 3, 1920x1080 LQ

F1 2012, 1366x768 HQ

F1 2012, 1366x768 HQ

F1 2012, 1920x1080 MQ

F1 2012, 1920x1080 MQ

Hitman: Absolution, 1366x768 MQ

Hitman: Absolution, 1366x768 MQ

Hitman: Absolution, 1920x1080 LQ

Hitman: Absolution, 1920x1080 LQ

Metro: Last Light, 1366x768 MQ

Metro: Last Light, 1366x768 MQ

Metro: Last Light, 1920x1080 LQ

Metro: Last Light, 1920x1080 LQ

Tomb Raider, 1366x768 MQ

Tomb Raider, 1366x768 MQ

Tomb Raider, 1920x1080 LQ

Tomb Raider, 1920x1080 LQ

And again, there is no surprise here. The increased gaming performance in A10-6800K and A10-5800K is about 4-5%, this result indicates that there is no difference between Trinity architecture and Richland graphics core. The improved performance independent effects the increased in the enhanced clock speed, up 44 MHz in new processor generation. In other words, nothing really changes in the gaming performance of the new socket FM2 platform.

AMD claims that the performance of the Radeon HD 8670D graphics increased processor in the A10-6800K is enough to run the modern games in Full HD resolution. And in fact, I can agree with that. However, it is important to remember that we are talking about the low image quality settings and accept the fact that it will not always be so in all cases. Some AAA shooters, such as Metro: Last Light, for example, is the way for AMD APU to handle and the launch of the new Richland design does not change that.

However, the integrated AMD graphics, though, is always better than competitors. Graphics cores in Intel processors offer the same price, such as the Intel HD Graphics 2500 and Intel HD Graphics 4000, provide 3D performance significantly lower.

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