AMD A10-5800K Trinity APU Review

Test Rig:

• A10-5800K APU
• MSI FM2-A85Xa-G65 Motherboard
• AMD RAM @ 1600 8GB Dual Channel
• Coolermaster 1500w M2 PSU
• 320GB WD Black Drive
• Eyefinity test resolution: 5760 x 1080

*we will be comparing performance to past Llano reviews.  A8-3850 and A8-3870K.

Aida64

AES Score: 293322

Hash Score: 2018 MB/s (1.9% increase over A8-3870k)

ZLib Score: 161.2MB/s

PhotoWorxx Score: 24850

Queen Score: 20014 (12.8% Decrease compared A8-3870K)

Aida is a tool with many difference benchmarks, informational, and tweaking tools.  We are using Aida64 to benchmark the A10-5600Ks’ computational performance.  We see some mid-high rankings which aren’t bad, but when we take into account the A10-5800K is the flagship for the APU series it does leave some to be desired.  However we expected this type of performance out of the APU line. Once again keep in mind overall cost of the part in question when comparing.

 

Passmark

Passmark is a tool that tests the computer as a whole: CPU, 2D, 3D, Memory, Disk, and CD.  The A8-5800K setup scored a 1752.2 while the Llano 3850 scored a 1431.6.  This comparison results in a 22.4% increase over the A8-3850.

 

PCMark 7

PCMark 7 is also a tool that tests the computer as a whole.  We have a score here of 1435 with our highest subset scores in Computation (3324) and Creativity (2700).

 

SiSoft Sandra

SiSoft Sandra is a free tool anyone can use to benchmark and compare results to other users.  Here we get a chance to compare the computational scores to other users with other comparable setups.

 

Overclocking

Since the A10-5800K is an unlocked processor, lets talk a bit about overclocking.  Using AMDs’ Overdrive Tool we were able to automatically allow the computer to find the highest stable overclock.  The tool itself we able to get the computer up to a measly 4.00GHz.  But wait: doesn’t AMD boast that the 5800k can get up to 4.2GHz with Turbo?  Both are true, 4.00GHz is the highest we could get ALL the cores to get up to (manually by adjusting the multiplier and automatically through the Overdrive Software).  4.2GHz is achievable only on a single core through AMD Turbo according to our testing.  So lets take a quick look at the 5% OC results from AIDA64.

 

In an ideal wordl, with a 5% OC we want to see a 5% increase in performance.  Lets crunch the numbers:

AES Score: 281092 (4% DECREASE)

Hash Score: 2050 (1.6% increase)

ZLib Score: 163.0 (1.24% increase)

PhotoWorxx Score: 24801 (0.1% decrease)

Queen Score: 20074 (0.3% increase)

 

Not too impressive.  We must take into account benchmarking error and with such a small overclock increase these increases won’t translate into better performance.