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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Shivansps - Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - link
J1900 is quad, J1800 is dual.Anadtech did everything they could to make the 5350 look good, not incluiding Haswells is one giant red flag right there, the 5350 MUST be tested vs G1820 as well J1900 and AMD A4s, none of those tests where done to make the 5350 look good.
YuLeven - Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - link
But, but, but... but... G1820's power comsumption is a solid 25W more! Think of the dolphins and the trees! It must be rubbish!Communism - Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - link
The funny part is that the G1820's true TDP isn't anywhere near 55w.It's only listed as 55w TDP because Intel doesn't want to make selling their more expensive low power parts even harder :P.
Communism - Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - link
To put this in perspective, my 3570k supposedly has a TDP of 77w.It actually does about 70w for the CPU alone @ 4.4ghz running Intel Math Library Linpack (The highest heat output you're likely to ever see).
That was running just 5-10 degrees from TJmax as well, so superior cooling wasn't a large factor since the stock CPU w/ stock cooler @ stock speeds would be about that temperature as well.
jospoortvliet - Thursday, April 10, 2014 - link
Esp as it turns out that power usage compared to jaguar cores is barely a few percent lower and actually muc worse at idle. The final article will have to come back on this statement.riottime - Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - link
gosh. it's depressing looking at the stale fx line in that roadmap. :(FriendlyUser - Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - link
Great product! Ideal for an HTPC or NAS or even a casual desktop. It will be a hit in the weaker economies.Ranari - Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - link
It's a great product for the price, and that's all it needs to be: Quad core, a powerful and compute-capable GPU, and reasonably feature rich. The only thing that seems to be holding the Cat cores back are their clockspeeds.robbertbobbertson - Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - link
mini-PCIe slot cannot be used for cooking scrumptious bacon pancakesi am disappoint
QChronoD - Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - link
Just wanted to point out that the description of the IGP Gaming page says the tests are being done at 1080P and Xtreme settings, but it lists 1280x1024 on the graphs. Are they being done at the highest settings as well? I would imagine the test would be more useful if the settings were turned down to medium or low since that's what anyone with the system would actually be using.