AMD A10-5800K & A8-5600K Review: Trinity on the Desktop, Part 2
by Anand Lal Shimpi on October 2, 2012 1:45 AM ESTGeneral Performance
SYSMark 2012
Although not the best indication of overall system performance, the SYSMark 2012 suite does give us a good idea of lighter workloads than we're used to testing.
AMD does surprisingly well here in SYSMark 2012. The Core i3 3220 manages a 12% advantage over the 5800K, but that's not as much as we'd normally expect given the significant single threaded performance deficit we pointed out earlier. Once again, whether or not Trinity makes sense for you depends on how much you value processor graphics performance.
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Spunjji - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - link
That seems to be a big if rather than a matter of when, though, given the patchy support that's been forthcoming for QuickSync so far! So possibly a valid avenue of investigation anyway. :)eBombzor - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - link
Am I missing something in the benchmarks? Tom's did a CPU comparison with the 2100 and the 8120 (which isn't a whole lot different from the 8150) and the 8120 is near the Phenom CPU gaming wise.http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-fx-pent...
Something is not right here, the 2100 dominated the 8120 in Tom's benchies, the 3220 should be better.
Ryan Smith - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - link
Just thumbing through Tom's article, it looks like they're using 1920x1080 with high quality settings (GPU-limited settings) while we're mostly using 1024 and 1680 in order to ensure we're CPU-limited.Rezurecta - Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - link
Who cares about CPU limiting? You're not going to play a game @ 1024. 1680 might be valid, but why not show benchmarks at 1920? It just doesn't make sense to show a benchmark that isn't at a major demographic point.It could be a very misleading benchmark for a substantial amount of readers.
CeriseCogburn - Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - link
But it makes amd look better, so it's awesome, and irresistible.Rand - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - link
Why was the overclocking test done on Windows 8 (Image shows Win8), while the performance testing was done on Windows 7 (Test setup lists Win7)?nofumble62 - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - link
This Trinity performance didn't beat i3, let alone i5.AMD statement " i5 performance at i3 price" is a total lie.
ac2 - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - link
It's only true for heavily threaded integer work and AES...But yeah, disappointing...
Taft12 - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - link
... and gaming on the integrated GPUMySchizoBuddy - Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - link
Legit reviews state that AMD advised them to disable turbo mode else it will throttle the overclock. They were able to overclock it to 4.6 with full stability using a larger cooler.http://www.legitreviews.com/article/2047/18/