AMD Kaveri A10 review thread

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/64...-apu-examined/
http://techreport.com/review/25908/a...essor-reviewed
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7677/a...7600-a10-7850k
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Process...ew-HSA-Arrives
http://www.extremetech.com/computing...rogeneous-chip
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages..._review,1.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...veri,3725.html

Some HSA enabled benchmarks here:

http://www.extremetech.com/computing...geneous-chip/5

[kompukare]

Ok, more reviews:
http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/p...averi-im-test/
(Google Translate)
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...00-review.html
http://semiaccurate.com/2014/01/14/h...-hits-desktop/
http://semiaccurate.com/2014/01/14/d...e-amds-kaveri/
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/913-...700k-test.html
(Google Translate)

Edit: ok that hardware.fr translate didn't work (was trying to translate from German to English since I had copied it from the Computerbase URL), and even now some of the graphics don't load for me on the translation...

Edit2: PCGH http://www.pcgameshardware.de/CPU-Ha...s-APU-1104954/ (Google Translate)

[Terbinator]

Hexus' only two pages.

The AT review is all over the place. Jacking up IQ and resolution at the same time? Unreal.

[Domestic_Ginger]

Anandtech:-

My grandfather has one amazing geeky quality that shines through though – he has played and completed every Tomb Raider game on the PC he can get his hands on.

It all came to a head this holiday season when he was playing the latest Tomb Raider game. He was running the game on a Pentium D with an NVIDIA 7200GT graphics card. His reactions are not the sharpest, and he did not seem to mind running at sub-5 FPS at a 640x480 resolution.

[CountBartok]

http://vr-zone.com/articles/kaveri-r...d/69423.html/1 A10-7850k 2400mhz ram.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I added the TH review. They actually test Crossfire with an R7 240 and it seems to be much better than with Richland:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ri,3725-8.html

Edit!!

Why didn't they use the 384 shader R7 250??

It has the same number of shaders as the A8 7600 and the R7 240 has 320 shaders.

[Dan the bloke]

Im hoping that theyll bring out some Steamroller core FX chips at some point soon.
Ive been sitting on my 1055t for a while now, and im just not sure the 8350 is worth it

[Bonebreaker777]

http://vr-zone.com/articles/kaveri-r...d/69423.html/1 A10-7850k 2400mhz ram.

Wonder about the performance difference in the standard DDR3 speed steps, such as 1600Mhz, 1866Mhz and 2133Mhz.

[badass]

Im hoping that theyll bring out some Steamroller core FX chips at some point soon.
Ive been sitting on my 1055t for a while now, and im just not sure the 8350 is worth it

Looks like steamroller will not be much faster than enhanced piledriver in non APU operations based on Kaveri benchmarks.

[kompukare]

Some Linux benches:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...ri_7850k&num=1
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...i_linwin&num=1

They didn't try locking both Richland and Kaveri to the same clock, but despite the clock they got "a few percent faster to around 30% faster". Having the source code and being to re-compile makes a big difference. A pity the Windows proprietary software model doesn't support that; which is one of the reasons why Windows RT is possibly going to join Window NT Alpha/MIPS/PowerPC in the land of the dodo. Of course, the same thing applies to Intel's processors too; Haswell with recompiled code is a lot faster than IB.

[Bonebreaker777]

...land of the dodo...

Haha, dodo :-D

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Some Linux benches:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...ri_7850k&num=1
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...i_linwin&num=1

They didn't try locking both Richland and Kaveri to the same clock, but despite the clock they got "a few percent faster to around 30% faster". Having the source code and being to re-compile makes a big difference. A pity the Windows proprietary software model doesn't support that; which is one of the reasons why Windows RT is possibly going to join Window NT Alpha/MIPS/PowerPC in the land of the dodo. Of course, the same thing applies to Intel's processors too; Haswell with recompiled code is a lot faster than IB.

The A10 7850K was meant to be in line with the Core i5 4670K?? What??

The Core i5 4670 is a more expensive and the A10 comes with a copy of BF4:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819113359
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819116898

The key sells for $30 to $45 on Ebay USA:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_saca...mplete=1&rt=nc

So even after fees that is easy $25 off the RRP.

That makes the Core i5 4670 at least $55 more expensive,and the A10 7850K $165 or even less.

The Core i3 4340 is $160:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...=-1&isNodeId=1

[Dan the bloke]

Looks like steamroller will not be much faster than enhanced piledriver in non APU operations based on Kaveri benchmarks.

Still, there is a few % improvement in some of the tests, and any IPC boost would be a plus.
I just dont want to buy an 8350, then have the FX-8550 announced the week after

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Still, there is a few % improvement in some of the tests, and any IPC boost would be a plus.
I just dont want to buy an 8350, then have the FX-8550 announced the week after

The FX8320 is only £107.92 ATM:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/AMD-FX8320-E.../dp/B009O7YU56

[Dan the bloke]

The FX8320 is only £107.92 ATM:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/AMD-FX8320-E.../dp/B009O7YU56

Yeah, ive seen
But I havent got any watercooling on the go, ive only got a CM Hyper 212EVO, so I need as much performance as I can get without adding heat through overclocking...
Am I thinking about that right? Or have I got the wrong idea in thinking its binned better

[Bonebreaker777]

The A10 7850K was meant to be in line with the Core i5 4670K?? What??

Maybe they meant once full support will be available for HSA, TrueAudio and Mantle (more rather said, more wider spread support).

Kaveri has 4 channels within it's memory controller (physically)? What??