AMD Kaveri A10-7850K Overclocking Analysis
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.
PCMark7 didn’t show very substantial gains as it is quite CPU-centric despite having a graphics segment to the test.
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.
PCMark8 showed some very healthy gains thanks to having both a gaming segment to the test and offering OpenCL acceleration.