AMD Trinity On The Desktop: A10, A8, And A6 Get Benchmarked!
Test Setup And Benchmarks
Test Hardware | |
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Processors | AMD A10-5800K (Trinity) 3.8 GHz (19 * 200 MHz), Four Cores, Socket FM2, 4 MB Total L2 Cache, Turbo Core enabled, Power-savings enabled |
Row 1 - Cell 0 | AMD A8-5600K (Trinity) 3.6 GHz (18 * 200 MHz), Four Cores, Socket FM2, 4 MB Total L2 Cache, Turbo Core enabled, Power-savings enabled |
Row 2 - Cell 0 | AMD A6-5400K (Trinity) 3.6 GHz (18 * 200 MHz), Two Cores, Socket FM2, 1 MB Total L2 Cache, Turbo Core enabled, Power-savings enabled |
Row 3 - Cell 0 | AMD A8-3850 (Llano) 2.9 GHz (14.5 * 200 MHz), Four Cores, Socket FM1, 4 MB Total L2 Cache, Power-savings enabled |
Row 4 - Cell 0 | AMD FX-8150 (Zambezi) 3.6 GHz (18 * 200 MHz), Eight Cores, Socket AM3+, 8 MB Shared L3 Cache, Turbo Core enabled, Power-savings enabled |
Thermal Paste | Zalman ZM-STG1 |
Motherboard | ASRock FM2A75 Pro4 (Socket FM2) AMD A75 FCH, Beta BIOS |
Row 7 - Cell 0 | ASRock A75 Extreme6 (Socket FM1) AMD A75 FCH, BIOS v.2.00 |
Row 8 - Cell 0 | Asus Sabertooth 990FX (Socket AM3+) AMD 990FX/SB950, BIOS 1208 |
Memory | G.Skill 16 GB (4 x 4 GB) DDR3-1600, F3-12800CL9Q2-32GBZL @ 9-9-9-24 and 1.5 V |
Row 10 - Cell 0 | Kingston 4 GB (2 x 2 GB) DDR3-2800, KHX2800OCC12D3T1K2/4GX @ 1.5 V |
Hard Drive | Intel SSD 510 250 GB, SATA 6 Gb/s for gaming tests |
Row 12 - Cell 0 | Intel SSD 520 240 GB, SATA 6 Gb/s for productivity/content creation tests |
Graphics | AMD Radeon HD 7660D |
Row 14 - Cell 0 | AMD Radeon HD 7560D |
Row 15 - Cell 0 | AMD Radeon HD 7540D |
Row 16 - Cell 0 | AMD Radeon HD 6670 |
Row 17 - Cell 0 | Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 |
Power Supply | Cooler Master UCP-1000 W |
System Software And Drivers | |
Operating System | Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit |
DirectX | DirectX 11 |
Graphics Driver | HD Graphics Driver For Windows 7 (15.26.8.64.2696) |
ASRock sent us its upcoming FM2A75 Pro4 to use a test platform. As its name suggests, the FM2A75 employs the older A75 FCH, which will likely become an approach some manufacturers use to maintain lower prices on FM2-equipped motherboards. We also have an A85-based board in the lab from another vendor, but its BIOS wasn't quite as far along.
You'll have to pardon the lack of comparison data. AMD never sent an A8-3870K to our SoCal lab, and my closest Intel-based competition is a Core i3-2105, which sells for quite a bit more than the A8-3850 in the charts on-hand. So, I took to Newegg and ordered an A8-3870K and a Core i3-2100, which make for a more balanced match-up. Both are on the test bench behind me right now, and we'll be publishing a video in the next few days with our findings. Not knowing how much the A10-5800K will cost, I'll try to get the Core i3-2105's HD Graphics 3000 included as well.
Game Benchmarks And Settings | |
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Batman: Arkham City | Game Settings: Lowest Quality Settings, Anti-Aliasing: Disabled, V-sync: Disabled, DirectX 11 Mode, 1280x720 / 1680x1050 / 1920x1080, Built-in Benchmark |
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | Game Settings: Medium Quality Settings, FXAA disabled, V-sync: Disabled, 1280x720 / 1680x1050 / 1920x1080, 25-second playback, Fraps |
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm | Game Settings: Good Quality Settings, Anti-Aliasing: 1x AA, V-sync: Disabled, 1280x720 / 1680x1050 / 1920x1080, Demo: Crushblow to The Krazzworks, DirectX 11, 64-bit Binary |
Diablo III | Game Settings: Low Quality Settings, Anti-Aliasing: Disabled, V-sync: Disabled, 1280x720 / 1680x1050 / 1920x1080, The Siege Of Bastion's Keep, 120-second playback, Fraps |
Audio Benchmarks and Settings | |
iTunes | Version: 10.4.10, 64-bit Audio CD ("Terminator II" SE), 53 min., Convert to AAC audio format |
Lame MP3 | Version 3.98.3 Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 53 min, convert WAV to MP3 audio format, Command: -b 160 --nores (160 Kb/s) |
Video Benchmarks and Settings | |
HandBrake CLI | Version: 0.9.5Video: Big Buck Bunny (720x480, 23.972 frames) 5 Minutes, Audio: Dolby Digital, 48 000 Hz, Six-Channel, English, to Video: AVC Audio: AC3 Audio2: AAC (High Profile) |
MainConcept Reference v2.2 | Version: 2.2.0.5440 MPEG-2 to H.264, MainConcept H.264/AVC Codec, 28 sec HDTV 1920x1080 (MPEG-2), Audio: MPEG-2 (44.1 kHz, 2 Channel, 16-Bit, 224 Kb/s), Codec: H.264 Pro, Mode: PAL 50i (25 FPS), Profile: H.264 BD HDMV |
Application Benchmarks and Settings | |
WinRAR | Version: 4.11 RAR, Syntax "winrar a -r -m3", Benchmark: 2010-THG-Workload |
WinZip 16.5 | Version: 16.5 WinZip GUI, Benchmark: 2010-THG-Workload |
7-Zip | Version 9.22 beta LZMA2, Syntax "a -t7z -r -m0=LZMA2 -mx=5", Benchmark: 2010-THG-Workload |
Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5 | Paladin Sequence to H.264 Blu-rayOutput 1920x1080, Maximum Quality, Mercury Playback Engine: Software Mode |
Adobe After Effects CS 6 | Version: CS5.5Tom's Hardware Workload, SD project with three picture-in-picture frames, source video at 720p, Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously |
Adobe Photoshop CS 6 (64-Bit) | Version: 11 Filtering a 16 MB TIF (15 000x7266), Filters:, Radial Blur (Amount: 10, Method: zoom, Quality: good) Shape Blur (Radius: 46 px; custom shape: Trademark sysmbol) Median (Radius: 1px) Polar Coordinates (Rectangular to Polar) |
ABBYY FineReader | Version: 10 Professional Build (10.0.102.82) Read PDF save to Doc, Source: Political Economy (J. Broadhurst 1842) 111 Pages |
3ds Max 2012 | Version: 10 x64 Rendering Space Flyby Mentalray (SPECapc_3dsmax9), Frame: 248, Resolution: 1440 x 1080 |
Adobe Acrobat X Professional | PDF Document Creation (Print) from Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 |
SolidWorks 2010 | PhotoView 360Render 01-Lighter Explode.SLDASM (SolidMuse.com)Image Output Resolution: 1920x1080, Render: Preview Quality “Good”, Final Render Quality “Best” |
Visual Studio 2010 | Compile Chrome project (1/31/2012) with devenv.com /build Release |
Synthetic Benchmarks and Settings | |
PCMark 7 | Version: 1.0.4 |
3DMark 11 | Version 1.0.3 |
SiSoftware Sandra 2012 SP4a | CPU Test=CPU Arithmetic/Multimedia, Memory Test=Bandwidth Benchmark, Cryptography, Cache Latency |
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Youngmind This is so exciting! AMD is probably going to dominate the lower-end and give the poor gamers like me more bang-for-buck as their IGP get better and better :)!Reply -
dudewitbow depending on how its priced, its a really nice alternative for bare budget gaming that opens up a quad core as wellReply -
So this means that a 'Crossfired' Trinity APU would beat ANY similarly-priced Intel (CPU+discrete GPU) ???Reply
Well at least in gaming -
dudewitbow JiggerByteSo this means that a 'Crossfired' Trinity APU would beat ANY similarly-priced Intel (CPU+discrete GPU) ???Well at least in gamingReply
really the question is what gpus are able to hybrid crossfire with it. the information was never public. not all amd gpus will hybrid crossfire with it. -
Well, where are the Ivy/Sandy i5's and i3's???Reply
Once they are pitted against each other, that will be A TRUE measure of the APU Trinity's marketability -
mayankleoboy1 in the OpenCL Winzip benchmark, when openCL is enabled the workload is done only by the iGPU or the CPU as well ?Reply
i mean what is the processor usage during the benchmark ? are all CPU cores used? or only one? -
cangelini mayankleoboy1in the OpenCL Winzip benchmark, when openCL is enabled the workload is done only by the iGPU or the CPU as well ?i mean what is the processor usage during the benchmark ? are all CPU cores used? or only one?Good question--I'll take a look for you.Reply