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Review: AMD Athlon 5350 (28nm Kabini)

by Tarinder Sandhu on 9 April 2014, 13:00

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Test Methodology

Comparison Processor Configurations

CPU
Intel
AMD
Core i5-4210Y
Core i5-4250U
Core i3-4330
Core i5-4670
A8-7600K
A10-7850K
A8-6500T
Athlon 5350
CPU TDP
11.5W
15W
54W
84W
65W/45W
95W
65W
25W
Socket
BGA 1168
BGA 1168
LGA 1150
LGA 1150
FM2+
FM2+
FM2
AM1
Fabrication
22nm
22nm
22nm
22nm
28nm
28nm
32nm
28nm
Motherboard
Sony Vaio Haswell ULT
Intel NUC Reference
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP
ASRock FM2A88X-ITX+
ASRock AM1B-ITX+
BIOS
R0290V8
2135
F5
1.90
1.0
DDR3 Memory
4GB (1x4GB)
8GB (2x4GB)
AMD Gamer Series 16GB (2x8GB)
AMD Gamer Series 4GB (1x4GB)
Memory Timings
11-11-11-28-1T @ 1,600MHz
11-11-11-28-1T @ 1,600MHz
9-10-9-27-2T @ 1,866MHz
10-11-11-28-2T @ 2,133MHz
9-10-9-27-2T @ 1,600MHz
9-9-9-28-2T @ 1,600MHz
Integrated Graphics
HD 4200
HD 5000
HD 4600
HD 4600
Radeon R7
Radeon R7
HD 8550D
Radeon R3
Disk Drive
Toshiba THNSNH128GMCT 128GB
Plextor PX-128M5M 128GB
Samsung 840 Pro 250GB
Chassis
Sony Tap 11
Intel NUC D54250WYK
Corsair Graphite 600T
Power Supply
Sony External (44W)
Intel External (65W)
Corsair AX760i (760W)
Operating System
Windows 8.1 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, medium quality
GRID 2 DX9, 1,280x720, high quality
Total War: Rome II DX9, 1,280x720, medium quality

Miscellaneous Benchmarks

Power Consumption While idling and when running wPrime and GRID 2

Notes

We're focussing on how the technology behind Kabini deals with our benchmarks. The Athlon 5350 is run through our standard CPU suite, and we can see relative performance against a wide range of processors outfitted with an equally wide range of TDPs. Let's be clear at the outset, the Athlon 5350 is the cheapest processor here, by some margin, so benchmark results should be taken in context.

We'll be updating the benchmarks with an Intel G3220 chip retailing for the same Ā£40 or so as the Athlon 5350. Intel Bay Trail numbers will also be added as soon as we have a board available.