AMD A10-6800K and A10-6700 Richland APUs Tested

Name: AMD A10-6800K APU
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, June 05, 2013, 12:01 AM EDT

Cyberlink's MediaEspresso is a video conversion tool that imports various video file types and converts them to other formats for publication, portability, and/or streaming. In this test, we take a 277MB high definition 1080p AVCHD video clip and convert it to a an H.264 encoded MP4 compatible file designed for use with an iPhone / iPad (or other portable media playback device).

Cyberlink MediaEspresso

Video Transcoding and Compression

Here we're going to look directly at AMD's HD Media Accelerator in the new A10 series APUs and compare it to Intel's Ivy Bridge and Haswell Quick Sync engines and competitive CPU-based solutions, as well.

AMD's latest APUs put up some better numbers here, but they still can't come close to matching the performance of Intel's Quick Sync engine.

Musemage

OpenCL Accelerated Image Editing

Musemage is a fully-functional GPU-powered photo editing software suite. Thanks to the GPU-accelerated filters built into the app, Musemage can leverage the additional performance afforded by a more powerful GPU and offer real-time (or near real-time) visual feedback. The application also offers a built-in benchmark, which outputs performance as a final "score". The score put up by each test system is represented in the graph below.

AMD's A10 series APUs all put up similar scores in the MuseMage benchmark, which was significantly higher than anything from the Intel camp.

Tags: AMD, Radeon, graphics, CPU, processor, Fusion, APU, FM2

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com