The AMD A8-7650K APU Review, Also New Testing Methodology
by Ian Cutress on May 12, 2015 10:00 AM ESTProfessional Performance: Windows
Agisoft Photoscan – 2D to 3D Image Manipulation: link
Agisoft Photoscan creates 3D models from 2D images, a process which is very computationally expensive. The algorithm is split into four distinct phases, and different phases of the model reconstruction require either fast memory, fast IPC, more cores, or even OpenCL compute devices to hand. Agisoft supplied us with a special version of the software to script the process, where we take 50 images of a stately home and convert it into a medium quality model. This benchmark typically takes around 15-20 minutes on a high end PC on the CPU alone, with GPUs reducing the time.
Photoscan prefers full threads and high IPC, so the low end i3, AMDs APUs and the G3258 all perform within a similar margin.
Cinebench R15
Cinebench is a benchmark based around Cinema 4D, and is fairly well known among enthusiasts for stressing the CPU for a provided workload. Results are given as a score, where higher is better.
Despite the single thread performance, in multithreaded the gap between Pentium, i3-T, APU and i3 is similar to that seen in Photoscan.
HandBrake v0.9.9: link
For HandBrake, we take two videos (a 2h20 640x266 DVD rip and a 10min double UHD 3840x4320 animation short) and convert them to x264 format in an MP4 container. Results are given in terms of the frames per second processed, and HandBrake uses as many threads as possible.
It's a similar story here, especially when we bring up 4K encoding in Handbrake. The APUs outperform the G3258 and the more expensive i3-T, but the i3-4330 is marginally quicker.
Hybrid x265
Hybrid is a new benchmark, where we take a 4K 1500 frame video and convert it into an x265 format without audio. Results are given in frames per second.
Facebook
Twitter
RSS
177 Comments
View All Comments
nikaldro - Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - link
And you still haven't got what he meantyannigr2 - Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - link
Tell me about it.nikaldro - Thursday, May 14, 2015 - link
Not sure if trolling,but anyway.They said "no comments" to express great disppointment.
As in " nothing to say about the poor performance. the numbers speak for themselves".
nikaldro - Thursday, May 14, 2015 - link
They said "no comments" as in "I have nothing to say about the poor performance of this APU. The number's speak for themselves."It had nothing to do with the actual number of comments.
nikaldro - Thursday, May 14, 2015 - link
*numbers, not number's. Damn autocorrectkrabboss - Saturday, May 23, 2015 - link
No, not really. They would have said "no comment" if that was the case, instead of "no comments."They're saying that AMD is in a sorry state these days because nobody is bothering to comment on a review of their new APU. They probably didn't realise the article had just been published, though.
redraider89 - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - link
Stupid comments. That states Sejong's comments.YuLeven - Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - link
Only outplays Intel's offerings when it comes to the somewhat irrelevant onboard gaming market. Usually barely matches the Core i3 performance sucking thrice the power. Not really impressed by this piece of silicon.nightbringer57 - Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - link
May be irrelevant to you.May not be as irrelevant to many.
Where the performances of the core i3 may shine much brighter on paper, this may not be the case of the typical daily use of the typical daily computer for facebook, youtube, netflix, and some gaming on a tight budget.
takeship - Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - link
Could we get a benchmark or two from the broadwell nuc line included? Comparing a released today Amd against Intel's year+ old igp's is a little disappointing.