The AMD A8-7650K APU Review, Also New Testing Methodology
by Ian Cutress on May 12, 2015 10:00 AM ESTProfessional Performance: Windows
Agisoft Photoscan – 2D to 3D Image Manipulation: link
Agisoft Photoscan creates 3D models from 2D images, a process which is very computationally expensive. The algorithm is split into four distinct phases, and different phases of the model reconstruction require either fast memory, fast IPC, more cores, or even OpenCL compute devices to hand. Agisoft supplied us with a special version of the software to script the process, where we take 50 images of a stately home and convert it into a medium quality model. This benchmark typically takes around 15-20 minutes on a high end PC on the CPU alone, with GPUs reducing the time.
Photoscan prefers full threads and high IPC, so the low end i3, AMDs APUs and the G3258 all perform within a similar margin.
Cinebench R15
Cinebench is a benchmark based around Cinema 4D, and is fairly well known among enthusiasts for stressing the CPU for a provided workload. Results are given as a score, where higher is better.
Despite the single thread performance, in multithreaded the gap between Pentium, i3-T, APU and i3 is similar to that seen in Photoscan.
HandBrake v0.9.9: link
For HandBrake, we take two videos (a 2h20 640x266 DVD rip and a 10min double UHD 3840x4320 animation short) and convert them to x264 format in an MP4 container. Results are given in terms of the frames per second processed, and HandBrake uses as many threads as possible.
It's a similar story here, especially when we bring up 4K encoding in Handbrake. The APUs outperform the G3258 and the more expensive i3-T, but the i3-4330 is marginally quicker.
Hybrid x265
Hybrid is a new benchmark, where we take a 4K 1500 frame video and convert it into an x265 format without audio. Results are given in frames per second.
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evolucion8 - Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - link
Actually the R9 280/280X have a 384-Bit BUS and their memory is clocked higher. That is why they offer around 288GB/s for it alone while the PS4 has 176GB/s shared for the system including RAM/BUS/CPU/GPU operations.Edens_Remorse - Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - link
/slow clapevolucion8 - Friday, October 16, 2015 - link
280/280X actually has a 384-Bit BUS.DevilSlayerWizard - Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - link
Every one of those 8 cores are a big joke compared to even Nehalem.silverblue - Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - link
...and this says you're telling porkies, for the most part:http://anandtech.com/bench/product/697?vs=47
Changed the 47 to a 100 for the 950, and to 45 for the 965 Extreme. Remember that these are 8-thread, triple channel CPUs.
nikaldro - Thursday, May 14, 2015 - link
Mmmm hellooooo? You actually believe that 8 Jaguar cores can even remotely be compared to any decent desktop class cpu?Kraelic - Thursday, May 14, 2015 - link
Those older generation discontinued Intel at 3 GHz trade blows with a current 4GHz AMD. Do you not get the joke?redraider89 - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - link
That's not what he said. Who knows what he means. AMD's comment about what? Poached eggs? Like I said, stupid.yannigr2 - Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - link
56 comments.yannigr2 - Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - link
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