The Kaveri Refresh 'Godavari' Review: Testing AMD's A10-7870K
by Ian Cutress on June 1, 2015 11:59 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.
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.
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.
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.
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Lolimaster - Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - link
Pls check the spanish website noticias3d, 860/870K are fine for crysis 3 you wont suffer any kind of lag, just lower fps vs more expensive cpu's either AMD/Intel quadcore.nikaldro - Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - link
Lower FPS = lag. It may be a bit better in this single case, but they're generally about even.Jimster480 - Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - link
They are not at all even. In the original G3258 tests it was shown that the G3258 lost to a 760k Athlon in most gaming tests. Only exceeding it by a couple FPS in single threaded games. Its really a pretty horrible chip.nikaldro - Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - link
The results i saw were quite the opposite.Jimster480 - Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - link
The 860k doesn't lag in Cyrsis 3. They have 4 threads and all modern instruction sets. The G3258 does not.nikaldro - Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - link
4 threads with low IPC, and it costs more.Margalus - Monday, June 1, 2015 - link
or far cry 3, which won't even start without a quad core. It is mandatory to have a quad core if you want to play that one.geekman1024 - Monday, June 1, 2015 - link
Where did you get that information? No, you don't need a quad core CPU to play FC3. I played it on an Athlon 64 x2, and it's pretty playable (with HD7850).Neither did the recommended PC spec demanding a quad core CPU.
http://far-cry.ubi.com/fc-portal/en-gb/community/d...
Cryio - Monday, June 1, 2015 - link
He obviously wanted to type FC4. That one only accepts quads.AS118 - Monday, June 1, 2015 - link
Honestly, with DirectX12 coming out, a dual core probably won't cut it in the future. The GTX 750 is a better investment. If asynchronous dual graphics that's vendor-neutral becomes a thing, the GPU part of the APU could work with the GTX 750 to render stuff, although if cost is a factor, a 7870K is good enough for 30fps 720 to 1080p gaming (although 720p to 900p is more reasonable imho) by itself without a dedicated GPU.