
Able to use as many x86 cores as you throw at it, 3ds Max gives the edge to AMD’s A10 and A8, though Intel’s Core i3s are only seconds behind.
Overclocking has a profound impact on performance in this test because, normally, the A10’s Turbo Core technology isn’t able to scale all the way up to 4.2 GHz when both modules are active. By setting a static 4.4 GHz clock rate, the APU’s x86 resources operate at a higher frequency even in the face of a taxing workload.

Based on Maxon’s Cinema 4D software, Cinebench is unique in that it allows us to isolate single- and multi-threaded performance.
Using it, we’re able to clearly see that Intel’s Ivy Bridge-based cores achieve much better performance than AMD’s Piledriver modules, even at significantly lower clock rates.
Truly, it takes parallelization to even out the field. Intel’s Hyper-Threading technology is designed to better-exploit underutilized processing resources, but it cannot overcome AMD’s approach, which exposes two complete integer cores per module.

In contrast, turning a PowerPoint document into an Adobe Acrobat file is not a task that gets divvied up across multiple cores. Intel’s powerful architecture consequently secures a victory that not even a Trinity-based APU at 4.4 GHz can overcome.
- Trinity: Great Gamer, But What About Power?
- A10-5800K: The Undervolt And Overclock
- Test Setup And Software
- Benchmark Results: 3DMark 11
- Benchmark Results: Adobe CS6
- Benchmark Results: Content Creation
- Benchmark Results: Productivity
- Benchmark Results: Compression Utilities
- Benchmark Results: Media Encoding
- Power Consumption
- Efficiency
- The Pursuit Of Balance Warms Our Hearts
At this price point, i would choose AMD Trinity.
Happy to set a couple of systems up and let you know what I find.
At this price point, i would choose AMD Trinity.
Happy to set a couple of systems up and let you know what I find.
So, it's probable that we're seeing a difference in configuration. It looks like Anand is using the Gigabyte A85X board and perhaps an older driver version. I'm on the MSI board and Cat 12.8, with a different Intel setup as well. On the Windows desktop, after 10 minutes on each config, I get 59 W for Intel and 67 W for AMD at idle.
Hopefully this articale can start to filter around particularly for the budget users which A-series is premised to target.
overclock the locked Intel chips? how do you suppose they do that? they weren't testing against Intel K series unlocked chips.
I can't be the only one who was waiting for the money shot of what is the difference in performance when you clock up from 800Mhz to >1000Mhz.
SUCH AN OVERSIGHT. UNFORGIVABLE!
1. overclocked/undervolted benchmarks for the i3 parts
2. dedicated gpu game benchmarks at 1440, 1680, 1920 for the A10 and the A8
3. More OpenCl benchmarks with and without dedicated GPUs for the i3 parts as well as the A10 parts
p.s. I realised I was getting thumbed up and down for this. do these seem like too many requests? nobody has covered trinity like toms and that too with superb writing quality. is it wrong for me to get greedy to read more of their stuff? :-) i'm addicted to this stuff is all. now if you'd excuse me, I have an F5 button to press.