AMD APU: How Much Progress Has Been Made?

OpenCL Benchmarks – Compubench and Luxmark

Compubench CL

CompuBench is a unified performance benchmarking tool that gives realistic feedback on the performance of various compute API implementations used for parallel programming of heterogeneous systems. Based on CLBenchmark, the first professional OpenCL benchmark on the market, it compares CPUs, GPUs and accelerators of desktop and mobile devices by their compute performance characteristics. Download here.

AMD does fairly well with improving OpenCL GPU performance by a significant amount, on the CPU side we see small incremental improvements.

Luxmark

LuxMark is a OpenCL benchmark tool. The idea for the program was conceived in 2009 by Jean-Francois ‘Jromang’ Romang. The idea was quite simple, wrap SLG inside an easy to use graphical user interface and use it as a benchmark for OpenCL. Download here.

Luxmark reveals significant performance jumps between Llano and Trinity and between Richland and Kaveri. OpenCL has been one of AMD’s strong points so these results are not at all surprising.