AMD A10-6800K and A10-6700 Richland APUs Tested
Test Setup and PCMark 7
Test System Configuration Notes: When configuring our test systems for this article, we first entered their respective system BIOSes or UEFIs and set each board to its "Optimized" or "High performance Defaults". We then saved the settings, re-entered the BIOS/UEFI, and set the memory speed to each platform's maximum, officially supported speed--DDR3-1866 in the case of Virgo. The solid state drives were then formatted, and Windows 7 Ultimate x64 was installed. When the Windows installation was complete, we fully updated the OS, and installed the drivers necessary for our components. Auto-Updating and Windows Defender were then disabled, and we installed all of our benchmarking software, performed a disk clean-up, cleared any prefetch and temp data, and ran the tests.
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| System 1: AMD A10-6800K (4.1GHz - Quad-Core) AMD A10-6700 (3.7GHz - Quad-Core) Asus F2A85-M Pro (AMD A85 Chipset) 2x4GB AMD DDR3-2133 (@1866 with 6700) Radeon HD 8760D On-Board Ethernet On-board Audio OCZ Vertex 3 MaxIOPS Windows 7 x64 |
System 2: AMD A10-5800K (3.8GHz - Quad-Core) AMD A8-5600K (3.6GHz - Quad-Core) Asus F2A85-M Pro (AMD A85 Chipset) 2x4GB Corsair DDR3-1866 Radeon HD 7660D/7560D On-Board Ethernet On-board Audio OCZ Vertex 3 MaxIOPS Windows 7 x64 |
System 3: Intel Core i5-3470 (3.2GHz - Quad-Core) Intel Core i3-3220/3225 (3.3GHz - Dual-Core) MSI Z77A-GD65 (Z77 Express Chipset) 2x4GB G.SKILL DDR3-1866 Intel HD 2500/4000 On-Board Ethernet On-board Audio OCZ Vertex 3 MaxIOPS Windows 7 x64 |
System 4: AMD A8-3870K (3.0GHz - Quad-Core) Asus F1A75-V Pro (AMD A75 Chipset) 2x4GB Corsair DDR3-1866 (@ 1866MHz) Radeon HD 6550D IGP On-Board Ethernet On-board Audio OCZ Vertex 3 MaxIOPS Windows 7 x64 |
System 5: AMD FX 8150 (3.6GHz Eight-Core) Asus CrossHair V Formula (AMD 990FX Chipset) 2x4GB G.SKILL DDR3-1866 (@ 1866MHz) GeForce GTX 280 On-Board Ethernet On-board Audio OCZ Vertex 3 MaxIOPS Windows 7 x64 |
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Futuremark's PCMark 7 is the latest version of the PCMark whole-system benchmarking suite. It has updated application performance measurements targeted for a Windows 7 environment and uses newer metrics to gauge relative performance.
Below is what Futuremark says is incorporated into the base PCMark suite and the Entertainment, Creativity, and Productivity suites--the four modules we have benchmark scores for you here.
The PCMark test is a collection of workloads that measure system performance during typical desktop usage. This is the most important test since it returns the official PCMark score for the system
Storage
Video Playback and transcoding
Graphics
Image manipulation
Web browsing and decryptingThe Entertainment test is a collection of workloads that measure system performance in entertainment scenarios using mostly application workloads. Individual tests include recording, viewing, streaming and transcoding TV shows and movies, importing, organizing and browsing new music and several gaming related workloads. If the target system is not capable of running DirectX 10 workloads then those tests are skipped. At the end of the benchmark run the system is given an Entertainment test score.
The Creativity test contains a collection of workloads to measure the system performance in typical creativity scenarios. Individual tests include viewing, editing, transcoding and storing photos and videos. At the end of the benchmark run the system is given a Creativity test score.
The Productivity test is a collection of workloads that measure system performance in typical productivity scenarios. Individual workloads include loading web pages and using home office applications. At the end of the benchmark run the system is given a Productivity test score.
The new AMD A-Series Elite APUs for 2013 shows some nice performance improvements in PCMark 7 due to their higher frequencies and much higher video encoding performance, which seems to leverage the GPU properly now. Even so, Intel's Core processors, however, have no trouble outperforming AMD here.
