AMD Kaveri Review: A10-7850K, A10-7700K and A8-7600

OpenCL CPU and Combined Performance

Compubench CL 1.1.3 – CPU

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.

Moving onto the OpenCL capabilities of the CPUs and unsurprisingly this one goes to Intel’s Haswell parts. They easily fend off the AMD APUs with the Core i3 4330 having a 50% lead and the Core i5 4440 having about twice as much performance. Both the Richland and Kaveri parts are close together – only the 45W Richland part falls well behind and again we can see a clear demonstration of the gains made by AMD in that 45W envelope.

Luxmark CPU/Combined

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 shows Intel snatch the glory in the CPU compute area but AMD prevail in the overall compute thanks to their combination of CPU and GPU compute being greater than Intel’s combination. Of course this is only a win for compute performance, if you’re an everyday user or a gamer then these numbers will have little relevance for you.