The Desktop Kabini Review Part 1: AMD Athlon 5350 (AM1) Tested
by Ian Cutress on April 9, 2014 8:00 AM ESTIGP Gaming
Bioshock Infinite
Bioshock Infinite was Zero Punctuation’s Game of the Year for 2013, uses the Unreal Engine 3, and is designed to scale with both cores and graphical prowess. We test the benchmark using the Adrenaline benchmark tool and the Xtreme (1920x1080, Maximum) performance setting, noting down the average frame rates and the minimum frame rates.
Tomb Raider
The next benchmark in our test is Tomb Raider. Tomb Raider is an AMD optimized game, lauded for its use of TressFX creating dynamic hair to increase the immersion in game. Tomb Raider uses a modified version of the Crystal Engine, and enjoys raw horsepower. We test the benchmark using the Adrenaline benchmark tool and the Perfomance, Quality and Xtreme performance settings, noting down the average frame rates and the minimum frame rates.
Sleeping Dogs
Sleeping Dogs has 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 the Xtreme (1920x1080, Maximum) performance setting, noting down the average frame rates and the minimum frame rates.
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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...