AMD A10 and A8 Trinity APU: Virgo CPU Performance
Test Setup and SiSoft SANDRA
Test System Configuration Notes: When configuring our test systems for this article, we first entered their respective system BIOSes or UEFIs and set each board to its "Optimized" or "High performance Defaults". We then saved the settings, re-entered the BIOS/UEFI and set the memory speed to each platform's maximum, officially supported speed--DDR3-1866 in the case of Virgo. The solid state drives were then formatted, and Windows 7 Ultimate x64 was installed. When the Windows installation was complete, we fully updated the OS, and installed the drivers necessary for our components. Auto-Updating and Windows Defender were then disabled and we installed all of our benchmarking software, performed a disk clean-up, cleared any prefetch and temp data, and ran the tests.
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| System 1: AMD A10-5800K (3.8GHz - Quad-Core) AMD A8-5600K (3.6GHz - Quad-Core) Asus F2A85-M Pro (AMD A85 Chipset) 2x4GB Corsair DDR3-1866 Radeon HD 7660D/7560D On-Board Ethernet On-board Audio OCZ Vertex 3 MaxIOPS Windows 7 x64 |
System 2: Intel Core i5-3470 (3.2GHz - Quad-Core) Intel Core i3-3220/3225 (3.3GHz - Dual-Core) MSI Z77A-GD65 (Z77 Express Chipset) 2x4GB G.SKILL DDR3-1866 Intel HD 2500/4000 On-Board Ethernet On-board Audio OCZ Vertex 3 MaxIOPS Windows 7 x64 |
System 3: AMD A8-3870K (3.0GHz - Quad-Core) Asus F1A75-V Pro (AMD A75 Chipset) 2x4GB Corsair DDR3-1866 (@ 1866MHz) Radeon HD 6550D IGP On-Board Ethernet On-board Audio OCZ Vertex 3 MaxIOPS Windows 7 x64 |
System 4: AMD FX 8150 (3.6GHz Eight-Core) Asus CrossHair V Formula (AMD 990FX Chipset) 2x4GB G.SKILL DDR3-1866 (@ 1866MHz) GeForce GTX 280 On-Board Ethernet On-board Audio OCZ Vertex 3 MaxIOPS Windows 7 x64 |
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;) AMD A10-5800K: Processor Benchmark |
;) AMD A10-5800K: Multimedia Benchmark |
;) AMD A10-5800K: Memory Bandwidth Benchmark |
;) AMD A10-5800K: Cache Latency Benchmark |
;) AMD A8-5600K: Processor Benchmark |
;) AMD A8-5600K: Multimedia Benchmark |
;) AMD A8-5600K: Memory Bandwidth Benchmark |
;) AMD A8-5600K: Cache Latency Benchmark |
Despite their new architecture and much higher base and Turbo frequencies, the AMD A10-5800K and A8-5600K offer only marginal improvements in performance over previous-gen products according to SANDRA. As the processor and multimedia benchmarks show, the A10-5800K and A8-5600K are only marginally faster than a Phenom II X4 965 and hang with older Core 2 Quads. Memory bandwidth is in the 11.1 - 11.4GB/s range, and like Bulldozer-based FX-Series processors, cache latency is unfortunately much higher than previous-gen products.
