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Dirt3
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Dirt3 represents mid-high level of gaming intensity. Dirt3 gives us the ability to benchmark the A10-5800K in single monitor and Eyefinity modes. We found that in single monitor we were able to play on the High preset at 32FPS which is just above the 30FPS target yet it is plenty for a racing game. Testing this game in Eyefinity gives us a chance to see how much muscle AMD has put into the GPU of trinity. We see that on the Low preset we’re able to play at 25FPS. A little low but by no means unplayable for a racing game.
Diablo3
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Diablo III also represents mid-quality gaming intensity. We found that on all High settings we were able to play Diablo III @ 1920 x 1080 at 22.6FPS. Also a little bit short of our 30FPS target but still playable on High settings.
Battlefield 3
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Now here’s were we get into high graphical intensity. Battlefield 3 is top tier in challenging Video cards so we should see what the A10-5800K is made of. We note that our average FPS was 22 on all Low settings at 1920 x 1080. This FPS is too low to play a first-person shooter on and will cut into gaming quality.
Unigine Heaven
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The Heaven benchmark is design to test out the DirectX 11 performance of a card. It runs through a series of scenes and reports back with frame rate information and an overall score. The A10-5800K came back with 16FPS: nothing real impressive here.
Overall our findings match our initial assumptions: the top-tier Trinity APU is aimed at mid-level gaming and is not meant for graphically intensive games.
So far this is the most promising release from AMD in the past couple years. I hope they are able to refocus and maintain.