Better With Time? The A8-3870 And Pentium G630, One Year Later
AMD's desktop APUs, which combine x86 cores and graphics resources, emerged more than a year ago. We take a Llano-based A8-3870 and compare its performance from 2011 to what you get today using new drivers, application versions, and OpenCL acceleration.
Benchmark Results: 3ds Max, Adobe Acrobat, Fritz, And PCMark
3ds Max runs a bit slower on AMD's updated system, but the difference is within the margin of error. Nevertheless, the A8 wins thanks to its four cores operating in parallel.
Creating a complex document in Adobe’s Acrobat X has always been faster on Intel's systems thanks to its single-threaded nature. Consistently, the most efficient architecture wins.
Fritz is a chess-based metric able to tax all of the x86 cores in your desktop. Naturally, then, AMD's quad-core A8-3870 has little trouble outperforming Intel's dual-core Pentium G630.
We also ran Futuremark’s PCMark 7, which measures performance in applications built into Windows 7, returning a synthetic score. Although Intel's advantage is quantifiable, both platforms finish this one fairly close together.
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