AMD A10-5800k APU Processor Review

Cinebench R11.5

CINEBENCH is a real-world cross platform test suite that evaluates your computer’s performance capabilities. CINEBENCH is based on MAXON’s award-winning animation software CINEMA 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. MAXON software has been used in blockbuster movies such as Spider-Man, Star Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia and many more. CINEBENCH is the perfect tool to compare CPU and graphics performance across various systems and platforms (Windows and Mac OS X). And best of all: It’s completely free.

As we can see in Cinebench, the 5800k is positioned exactly where it’s aimed for above the other APU processors from FM1 and FM2 platforms barring the flagship FM1 3870k. The overclock helped to boost the CPU score to just under 4 and in reality isn’t a million miles away from an i5 3570k but comes in with a much lower price point. We were hoping to see a slightly higher boost with the overclock however.

Super PI

Super PI is a computer program that calculates pi to a specified number of digits after the decimal point—up to a maximum of 32 million. It uses Gauss–Legendre algorithm and is a Windows port of the program used by Yasumasa Kanada in 1995 to compute pi to 232 digits.

Super Pi showed the 3870k beating the A10-5800k again by quite a large margin this time of around 3 minutes in terms of calculation time and from our tests, we can also see that the A10-5800k competes with the FX Vishera series of CPUs quite closely. The overclock manages to shave off some time, but this only brings it inline with the previous socket FM1 3870k.