AMD Kaveri Review: A10-7850K, A10-7700K and A8-7600
Ryan Martin / 11 years ago
Total System Performance
PCMark 7
PCMark 7 is a complete PC benchmarking solution for Windows 7 and Windows 8. It includes 7 tests combining more than 25 individual workloads covering storage, computation, image and video manipulation, web browsing and gaming. Download here.
PCMark 7 loves x86 CPU performance and barely touches the integrated GPUs so it isn’t surprising that the two Haswell CPUs shoot off into the distance. The Kaveri parts actually fall slightly behind Richland at the higher end but as usual the A8-7600 drastically improves on the A8-6500T delivering impressive results.
PCMark 8
The PCMark 8 Home benchmark includes workloads that reflect common tasks for a typical home user. These workloads have low computational requirements making PCMark 8 Home suitable for testing the performance of low-cost tablets, notebooks and desktops. Home includes workloads for web browsing, writing, gaming, photo editing, and video chat. The results are combined to give a PCMark 8 Home score for your system. Download here.
PCMark 8 offers support for compute standards like OpenCL so we ran it with OpenCL to see how much difference a strong iGPU makes. As you can see AMD’s APUs all build a large lead over Intel’s Haswell parts but the gains between Richland and Kaveri are relatively small except again in that 45W ballpark where the A8-7600 really gains strongly compared to the A8-6500T.
