AMD A10 and A8 Trinity APU: Virgo Desktop Experience

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 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.

HotHardware's Test Systems Intel and AMD - Head To Head

Cinebench R11.5 OpenGL Test 3D Rendering

Cinebench R11.5’s GPU benchmark uses a complex 3D scene depicting a car chase, which measures the performance of a graphics card in OpenGL mode. The graphics card has to display a huge amount of geometry (nearly 1 million polygons) and textures, as well as a variety of effects, such as environments, bump maps, transparency, lighting and more to evaluate the performance across different disciplines and give a good average overview of the capabilities of the graphics hardware. Results are reported in frames per second.

In our first graphics-related benchmark, the new AMD A10-5800K and A8-5600K APUs finish at the head of the pack. The additional active Radeon cores in the A10-5800K's on-die Radeon HD 7660D GPU give it about a 17% edge over the A8-5600K, but both are much faster than Intel's HD 2500 (Core i3-3220) and HD 4000 (Core i3-3225) graphics engines.