AMD Kaveri Review: A8-7600 and A10-7850K Tested
by Ian Cutress & Rahul Garg on January 14, 2014 8:00 AM ESTIntegrated GPU Performance: Sleeping Dogs
Sleeping Dogs is a benchmarking wet dream – a highly complex benchmark that can bring the toughest setup and high resolutions down into single figures. Having an extreme SSAO setting can do that, but at the right settings Sleeping Dogs is highly playable and enjoyable. We run the basic benchmark program laid out in the Adrenaline benchmark tool, and their three default settings of Performance (1280x1024, Low), Quality (1680x1050, Medium/High) and Xtreme (1920x1080, Maximum) noting down the average frame rates and the minimum frame rates.
Sleeping Dogs, Performance Settings
All the AMD APUs tested for this review manage to go above 30 FPS for Sleeping Dogs, with the top end APU nudging at the door of 60 FPS average.
Sleeping Dogs, Quality Settings
The GCN based Kaveri take the top two IGP spots, and Iris Pro is moving down the list by comparison.
Sleeping Dogs, Xtreme Settings
Iris Pro struggles a lot at 1080p in Sleeping Dogs.
Integrated GPU Performance: Company of Heroes 2
The final gaming benchmark is another humdinger. Company of Heroes 2 also can bring the house down, even at very basic benchmark settings. To get an average 30 FPS at any settings using integrated graphics is a challenge, let alone a minimum frame rate of 30 FPS. For this benchmark I use modified versions of Ryan’s batch files more suited for integrated graphics: 1280x1024 on minimum; 1680x1050 on Low and 1920x1080 on Medium.
Company of Heroes 2, Performance Settings
COH2 is demanding enough that even at 1280x1024 and low settings, no platform we tested today can hit 30 FPS average. The 95W Kaveri part does however outshine Richland by almost 25%.
Company of Heroes 2, Quality Settings
Company of Heroes 2, Xtreme Settings
With COH2 extreme settings, the Intel solutions are moving up the minimum FPS ranks to beat AMD.
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keveazy - Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - link
Compete to do heavy software and GAMING. My motherboard only costs $60. Of course I "checked". Intel is not stupid. Their 4600 is not meant for gaming and they Don't boast about it. I use a dedicated GPU to run games.AMD keeps on advertising their igpu that it can run today's games like battlefield 4 on 1080p. Yeah, on Low settings...... Even the PS4's gpu is better than that.
YuLeven - Thursday, January 16, 2014 - link
If general tasks and gaming is on stake here, I say buy a cheap Pentium G for US$65 and a HD 7770GE for US$110 (today's price at newegg). The SSD too, of course. Voilá, you have fast general tasks and a GPU that makes the A10-7850K's GPU look like a toy.just4U - Thursday, January 16, 2014 - link
Your I5 costs $200ish.. sales might get that down to 185 if your lucky.. I rarely see it though.keveazy - Saturday, January 18, 2014 - link
I bought my I5 4440 for $175 dude. you serious?Laststop311 - Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - link
the 45 watt one oe 65 watt once would make an awesome htpc loaded withh all the old school emulators and so,e mew games with controllers.JDG1980 - Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - link
Old-school emulators will work fine on almost any modern system, including one with Intel's integrated graphics.fox1986 - Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - link
Would it be possible to make a fm2 motherboard with 6 display outputs?fteoath64 - Sunday, January 19, 2014 - link
"with 6 display outputs?". Buy a Netfinity 6 port Gpu card and stick it on the PCIe X16 slot and you are set. There was one Netfinity card that had 5 miniDP ports and a DVI connector, if I am not mistaken.figus77 - Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - link
"It is interesting to note that at the lower resolutions the Iris Pro wins on most benchmarks, but when the resolution and complexity is turned up, especially in Sleeping Dogs, the Kaveri APUs are in the lead."It's simple... al low resolution and detail the raw power of the i5 crush the A10 when there is not GPU bottleneck...
duploxxx - Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - link
that could be tested inserting an equal discrete GPU on to both systems....