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Review: AMD A10-7850K (28nm Kaveri)

by Tarinder Sandhu on 30 January 2014, 17:00

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Testing methodology

Comparison Processor Configurations

CPU
AMD
Intel
A10-7850K
A8-7600K
A10-6800K
A8-6500T
Core i5-4670
Core i3-4330
Chip TDP
95W
65W/45W
100W
65W
84W
54W
Current price
£135
£90
£105
£80
£160
£95
Motherboard
ASRock FM2A88X-ITX+
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP
BIOS
1.90
F5
Chipset Driver
AMD Catalyst 13.12
Intel Inf 9.4.0.1027 and IMEI 9
DDR3 Memory
AMD Gamer Series 16GB (2x8GB)
Memory Timings
10-11-11-28-2T @ 2,133MHz
9-10-9-27-2T @ 1,600MHz
9-10-9-27-2T @ 1,866MHz
Integrated Graphics
Radeon R7
Radeon R7
HD 8670D
HD 8550D
HD 4600
HD 4600
IGP driver
AMD Catalyst 13.30 RC3
Intel 15.33.8.64.3379
Disk Drive
Samsung 840 Pro 250GB
Chassis
Corsair Graphite 600T
Power Supply
Corsair AX760i
Operating System
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit

CPU and Memory Benchmarks

HEXUS PiFast
Our number-crunching benchmark stresses a single core by calculating Pi to 10m places
CineBench R15 Using Cinebench's multi-CPU render, this cross-platform benchmark stresses all cores
wPrime 2.1.0 Another number-crunching benchmark that stresses all available CPU cores/threads
AIDA64 v4.00.2746
Benchmark that analyses memory bandwidth and latency

Multimedia Benchmarks

LuxMark 2.0 An OpenCL rendering benchmark
MuseMage 1.9.6 An OpenCL image-manipulation benchmark (64-bit)
HandBrake 0.9.9.1 Free-to-use video encoder that stresses all CPU cores (64-bit)

System Benchmarks

PCMark 8 v2.0 System-wide examination that uses the Home preset, run with OpenCL acceleration
3DMark DX11, run at the Firestrike default test
SiSoft Sandra 2014 Aggregate score that takes a composite of 12 system-wide benchmarks

Gaming Benchmarks

BioShock Infinite DX9, 1,280x720 and 1,920x1,080 medium quality
GRID 2 DX9, 1,280x720 and 1,920x1,080 high quality
Total War: Rome II DX9, 1,280x720 and 1,920x1,080 medium quality

Miscellaneous Benchmarks

Power Consumption While idling and when running wPrime and GRID 2

Notes

We have added the Intel Core i5-4670 into the mix, to see if the A10-7850K can handle the extra power available through Intel's four physical cores. Do note the 4670's graphics use the same architecture as the Core i3-4300's but are clocked in a touch higher - 1.2GHz vs. 1.15GHz.

AMD is soon to release a Dual Graphics and Mantel-approved driver. We will be taking a look at performance in those scenarios in separate articles.