The Desktop Kabini Review Part 1: AMD Athlon 5350 (AM1) Tested
by Ian Cutress on April 9, 2014 8:00 AM ESTCPU Benchmarks
Console Emulation – Dolphin Benchmark: link
At the start of 2014 I was emailed with a link to a new emulation benchmark based on the Dolphin Emulator. The issue with emulators tends to be two-fold: game licensing and raw CPU power required for the emulation. As a result, many emulators are often bound by single thread CPU performance, and general reports tended to suggest that Haswell provided a significant post to emulator performance. This benchmark runs a Wii program that raytraces a complex 3D scene inside the Dolphin Wii emulator. Performance on this benchmark is a good proxy of the speed of Dolphin CPU emulation, which is an intensive single core task using most aspects of a CPU. Results are given in minutes, where the Wii itself scores 17.53; meaning that anything above this is faster than an actual Wii for processing Wii code, albeit emulated.
Point Calculations – 3D Movement Algorithm Test: link
3DPM is a self-penned benchmark, taking basic 3D movement algorithms used in Brownian Motion simulations and testing them for speed. High floating point performance, MHz and IPC wins in the single thread version, whereas the multithread version has to handle the threads and loves more cores.
Encryption –TrueCrypt v0.7.1a: link
TrueCrypt is an off the shelf open source encryption tool for files and folders. For our test we run the benchmark mode using a 1GB buffer and take the mean result from AES encryption.
Synthetic – 7-Zip 9.2: link
As an open source compression tool, 7-Zip is a popular tool for making sets of files easier to handle and transfer. The software offers up its own benchmark, to which we report the result.
Rendering – PovRay 3.7: link
The Persistence of Vision RayTracer, or PovRay, is a freeware package for as the name suggests, ray tracing. It is a pure renderer, rather than modeling software, but the latest beta version contains a handy benchmark for stressing all processing threads on a platform. We have been using this test in motherboard reviews to test memory stability at various CPU speeds to good effect – if it passes the test, the IMC in the CPU is stable for a given CPU speed. As a CPU test, it runs for approximately 2-3 minutes on high end platforms.
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tomsworkshop - Friday, April 11, 2014 - link
i think these chips are nice for 12"-13" slim laptop, and don't if it is soldered on board, is about time they replace the current E350 APU on mobo with jaguar core chips, maybe the GDDR5 sideport memory onboard will be a nice feature.Hrel - Friday, April 11, 2014 - link
I don't even know why they're bothering, these performance numbers are useless.Oscarcharliezulu - Saturday, April 12, 2014 - link
PC's wont compete with tablets by being cheap, they compete by being awesome - 4k screens, fast ssd's, great 3d graphics, cloud storage so you can work anywhere, great games at ultra HD....hangfirew8 - Monday, April 14, 2014 - link
...and a full-sized keyboard and mouse.Antronman - Monday, April 21, 2014 - link
Microsoft solved that problem.Heck, some of the Surface tablets have serious CPU computing power.
PCs compete by having better price/performance, and yes being generally better.
I'd like to see UE4 on an iPad air :P
plonk420 - Sunday, April 13, 2014 - link
on my 19 watt E-350 (microATX, also see http://www.anandtech.com/show/4996/ ), i removed the tiny, possibly whiny fan, and secured a PWM 120mm Arctic Cooling fan over it. that with a PC Power and Cooling Silencer, and it was so quiet, i could hear my fridge and other PCs around the apartment, it was so quiet.fteoath64 - Sunday, April 13, 2014 - link
How could a dual core chip clocked at less than 1.5Ghz with gpu at 400Mhz have a TDP of 25 watts ?!!!. Even an Arm chip clocked at 1.9Ghz have a TDP of about 5 watts. How can x86 compete really in terms of price performance and power ?!. These are throw away chips with such power consumption levels.0ldman79 - Sunday, April 13, 2014 - link
Any way we could get some FX processors in the benches?I know that AM3+ is probably a dead line, but we've still got the machines out in the world. I'd like to know where my PC lines up without having to find an FX 6300 compared to a Core i5 compared to an A8.
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duploxxx - Monday, April 14, 2014 - link
And yet again we have to find out that in the conclusion the review start to focus on cpu performance only and compairing with totally different types of cpu to make this kabini look bad especially the single threaded performance. while it is on par with latest generation of intel or on multithreaded way better.http://www.anandtech.com/show/7933/the-desktop-kab...
not a single word in the conclusions on graphics which again shows how bad all these intel parts really are... even these latest generations.
I often wonder that reviewer background and how neutral they actually are and look at a certain system from a certain perspective, sure my ferrari will run faster then a fiat, but look at the purpose and design...