AMD Kaveri Arrives: A8-7600 APU Review

Name: AMD Kaveri Arrives: A8-7600 APU Review
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 03:45 PM EDT

Cinebench R15’s GPU benchmark uses a 3D scene depicting a car chase, which measures the performance of a graphics card using OpenGL. The graphics card has to process a large amount of geometry (nearly 1 million polygons) and textures, as well as a variety of effects, such as bump maps, transparency, lighting and more. Results are reported in frames per second.

Cinebench R15 OpenGL Test

3D Rendering

The A8-7600 performed right about in-line with the A8-6500T in this test, but behind the A10-6800K by a significantly margin. The Intel processors, however, finished well behind the AMD APUs.

Bioshock Infinite

High-Res Test

For this next set of tests, we pit the integrated processor graphics incorporated into AMD's APUs against Intel's HD 4600 series engine--the most pervasive model available in desktop Haswell-based processors. We tested the game at its high-quality setting, at a resolution of 1920x1080, to put a significant strain on the various GPUs.

Once again, when the GPU is being taxed, AMD's APUs come out on top. At both TDP settings, the new A8-7600 outpaced every other configuration we tested, nearly doubling the performance of the Haswell-based Core processors.

Tags: AMD, GPU, CPU, processor, A-8, APU, Kaveri, 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