The AMD A8-7670K APU Review: Aiming for Rocket League
by Ian Cutress on November 18, 2015 8:00 AM ESTOffice Performance
The dynamics of CPU Turbo modes, both Intel and AMD, can cause concern in environments with variably-threaded workloads. There is also an added issue of the motherboard remaining consistent, depending on how the motherboard manufacturer wants to add in their own boosting technologies over the ones that Intel would prefer they used. In order to remain consistent, we implement an OS-level unique high-performance mode on all the CPUs we test, which should override any motherboard manufacturer performance mode.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
Dolphin Benchmark: link
Many emulators are often bound by single-thread CPU performance, and general reports tended to suggest that Haswell provided a significant boost to emulator performance. This benchmark runs a Wii program that ray traces 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 minutes.
All AMD CPUs performed similarly here.
WinRAR 5.0.1: link
Our WinRAR test from 2013 is updated to the latest version of WinRAR at the start of 2014. We compress a set of 2,867 files across 320 folders totaling 1.52GB – 95% of these files are small typical website files, and the rest (90% of the size) are small 30-second 720p videos.
WinRAR is all about threads and DRAM speed, so the CPUs that can support higher DRAM frequencies get a boost.
3D Particle Movement
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 win in the single-thread version, whereas the multithread version has to handle the threads, and loves more cores.
Again, all AMD CPUs seem to perform similarly in 3DPM for single-thread mode, indicating that something more fundamental about the design is a bottleneck.
FastStone Image Viewer 4.9
FastStone is the program I use to perform quick or bulk actions on images, such as resizing, adjusting for color and cropping. In our test, we take a series of 170 images in various sizes and formats, and convert them all into 640x480 .gif files, maintaining the aspect ratio. FastStone does not use multithreading for this test, and results are given in seconds.
Single-thread frequency and IPC win here.
Web Benchmarks
On the lower-end processors, general usability is a big factor of experience, especially as we move into the HTML5 era of Web browsing. For our Web benchmarks, we take four well-known tests with Chrome 35 as a consistent browser.
Mozilla Kraken 1.1
WebXPRT
Google Octane v2
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BrokenCrayons - Thursday, November 19, 2015 - link
I'd love to see better IGPs from Intel as well, but it really only serves to move the bottom rung of the graphics ladder up a notch. They don't seem like they'll ever really catch up with system requirements on contemporary games. It's more of a matter of waiting for the current Intel graphics processor to be good enough to run what's already been on the market for a while in terms of entertainment. Beyond that, if Intel dedicates more space to graphics, there'll invariably be someone else who complains that it's a complete waste for there to even be integrated graphics in the first place since they have a discrete GPU.raikoh05 - Thursday, November 19, 2015 - link
you can probably make it run better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiCCKurW9TUplonk420 - Thursday, November 19, 2015 - link
how the hell is this doing better than an A10 with 128 more streaming processors?JoeMonco - Friday, November 20, 2015 - link
It's summed up as "LOL AMD".Rexolaboy - Thursday, December 10, 2015 - link
The a10 benchmarks are from the launch tests. Not current, there is no reason to include them. Anandtech fail.Tunrip - Friday, November 20, 2015 - link
"I outfitted my 15-year-old cousin-in-law with an APU" THE FUTURE IS HERE! :Dhmmmmmmmmmm - Friday, November 20, 2015 - link
People spending so much time on what-ifs. Why don't they just wait for the benchmarks for Zen and Kaby Lake instead of giving each other lessons in history and mathematics.BMNify - Saturday, November 21, 2015 - link
There is an incredible bias, but to no fault of your own, in the web benchmarks part. Considering that Intel is tied for second (with Opera. Samsung is the largest, of all companies) as the most active contributor for Chromium since about 2012, major effort is being invested by Intel to optimize Chrome for their chips. It just doesn't make logical sense every Intel chip performs that much better than AMD on web benchmarks other than they have invested a lot of time in helping advance chromium development. I mean come on, even a low end Pentium at stock speeds destroys even the highest AMD chip on those javascript/Web benchmarks. That has to be obvious bias.http://mo.github.io/assets/git-source-metrics-chro...
I am not knocking Intel as their efforts are commendable in chromium development and any Chrome users who also use heavy JS browser apps would be amiss to choose AMD, but just wanted to point out that in benchmarking (which should be as level field as possible), you guys should switch to another browser like Firefox or even IE 11/Edge.
hojnikb - Saturday, November 21, 2015 - link
Edge uses the same engine as Chrome... IE11 is old.If AMD actually invested something in software optimization wouldn't hurt.
Gigaplex - Monday, November 23, 2015 - link
Edge does not use the same engine as Chrome. Edge uses EdgeHTML and Chakra, Chrome uses Blink/WebKit and V8.