AMD Beema and Mullins Low Power 2014 APUs Tested

Name: AMD Beema and Mullins Mainstream and Low-Power 2014 APUs Tested
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 12:00 AM EDT

Next up, we have some graphics testing with 3DMark Ice Storm, in both Extreme and Unlimited modes. Ice Storm Extreme raises the rendering resolution from 720p to 1080p and uses higher quality textures and post-processing effects in the Graphics tests to create a more demanding workload for the latest smartphones and tablets. In Unlimited mode frames are rendered in 720p off-screen while the display is updated with thumbnails every 100 frames to show progress.

Futuremark 3DMark Fire Strike

Synthetic DirectX Gaming

The AMD A10 Micro-6700T's Radeon R6 graphics engine is clearly superior to all of the other low-power platforms we tested. In the direct Extreme-to-Extreme comparison with Bay Trail, the A10 Micro-6700T simply dominates.

Tags: AMD, GPU, mainstream, Low-power, SoC, APU, Beema, Mullins

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