The AMD A8-7670K APU Review: Aiming for Rocket League
by Ian Cutress on November 18, 2015 8:00 AM ESTProfessional Performance: Windows
Agisoft PhotoScan – 2D to 3D Image Manipulation: link
Agisoft PhotoScan creates 3D models from 2D images — a process that 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 achieve the best performance. 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 to 20 minutes on a high-end PC on the CPU alone, with GPUs reducing the time.
PhotoScan shows most APUs performing around 41 to 42 minutes, which suggests that there is a bottleneck in the core design.
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 a video (a 2h20 640x266 DVD rip) and convert it 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.
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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.