Productivity Performance
Handbrake
HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. Download here.
Encoding is a very CPU centric process but we still saw a slight boost in performance, however we’re talking around 1.5% which is really small.
Adobe Photoshop CC
Just about every creative digital project has Photoshop CC at its core. The world’s most advanced image editing app lets you enhance, retouch, and manipulate photographs and other images in any way you can imagine. Download here.
In Photoshop we saw identical results mainly due to the margin of error in our testing. The memory scaling doesn’t make enough of a difference to the GPU in this short benchmark.
LibreOffice
LibreOffice is the free power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. Support and documentation is free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers. Download here.
We saw very slightly improvements in LibreOffice on the GPU benchmark, the CPU ones remained static. We think there would be more performance to gain from overclocking, something we’ll address later.
MuseMage
Musemage is the world’s first fully functional GPU-powered photo editing software with advanced features and simple user interface. Thanks to the GPU accelerated filters, musemage has ultra fast speed and real-time visual feedbacks. Download here.
MuseMage showed the kind of scaling we really wanted to see. Being a totally GPU accelerated photo editing program it scaled really well.
great work there fella, a good in depth look at kaveri, and good luck with the overclocking, I found it hard, but that was on an FM1 chipset, with a 1600mhz kit, looking at this report, seems I should have went for a 1866 or 2133 kit, then tried to overclock, thanks for the info, and the time and effort put into these kaveri reports, Cheers !
Great article. I wasn’t sure how much memory was too much or too little with the new chips. Also thanks for including a page looking at the Dual Graphics impact.
Would have been a much better article if you would have also included overclocking… of both CPU, iGPU and RAM… While for gaming, something like 4-4,4GHz would have been enough, reaching 900+ MHz on the iGPU and going above 2400MHz on the RAM would have been amazing. 2400 and above might not matter at stock, but when you manage to go to the 1020MHz preset or above on the iGPU… then I’m pretty sure the memory limitations would start to matter a lot more again.
A bit late…but we did test with 2400MHz and an overclocked iGPU here:
http://www.eteknix.com/amd-kaveri-a10-7850k-overclocking-unleashing-gcns-potential/all/1/
We didn;’t overclock the CPU at the same time because doing so will cause the iGPU to thermal/power throttle even when turning APM off.
Kingston 8gb Hyperx Fury 1866mhz , A10-7850K, Asus GT610 2gb ddR3 Graphics card,
asus A88X-Gamer FM2+ Intex 450 wat Smps
can i do below activity in this configuration
AMD Kaveri A10 7850K APU Overclocked… To 4.7 GHz
please guide me
thanks a lot. really helpful.