AMD A8-3870K - Is it worth the extra money? Test System AMD A8-3870K 3.0 GHz AMD Radeon HD 6550D (iGPU) 4GBx2 DDR3 1866 CL9 mATX FM1 board Windows 7 64-bit Test Methodology For this test, stand-alone benchmark tools will be used. These are free and makes it easier for everybody to replicate the tests I will doing.

Games used for testing are: Lost Planet 2 (Download here ) Resident Evil 5 (Download here ) The good thing about these benchmark tools is they depict actual game play. If your PC runs these benchmarks tools smoothly, it is very likely that actual game play will also be smooth.

Lost Planet 2 benchmark has 2 types: Test A and Test B. Test A depicts actual game play.

Each run has a small variation but repeatability is very good. Area 2 of Test A will be used. Test B has excellent repeatability but it does not depict actual game play and it is more demanding.

Resident Evil 5 benchmark also has 2 types: Variable and Fixed. For this test, variable benchmark is used because it depicts actual game play. Each run has a small variation but repeatability is very good. Settings of Lost Planet 2 DX11 mode resolution: 1600 x 900 anti-aliasing: off motion blur: off shadow detail: middle texture detail: high render level: middle DX11 features: low Settings of Resident Evil 5 DX10 mode resolution: 1920 x 1080 anti-aliasing: off motion blur: off shadow detail: high texture detail: high overall quality: high All benchmarks are run with Vertical Sync disabled. FRAPS was used to log the Frame Rate and Frame Time. FRAPS timed benchmarks were set to automatically stop after 90 seconds. For those who are not familiar with frame time benchmarking, read this article.

A minor revision in Tech Report 's frame time benchmarking method can also be found here A8-3850 (100 MHz x 29) was simulated by lowering the CPU multiplier of A8-3870K (100 MHz x 30) and running the iGPU at stock speed Here are the overclocked settings of A8-3870K: CPU @ 3.2 GHz (stock is 3.0 GHz) iGPU @ 757 MHz (stock is 600 MHz) NB @ 900 MHz (stock is 720 MHz) Test Results Lost Planet 2 - Frame Rate vs Time - edited by benchmarksoftruth on Jun 02 2012, 12:07 PM. on 01 Jun 12 @ 04:35 PM.

Resident Evil 5 - Frame Times and Time Spent Beyond Thresholds Conclusion If you are looking for a new low-budget gaming PC that does not need a discrete GPU, AMD A8-3870K is a good buy. Overclocking the HD 6550D gives good performance gains. For those who already own an AMD A8-3850, you should check first if you have an overclockable chip. AMD A8-3850 has a locked multiplier. The only way to overclock the iGPU is to increase the base clock which is 100 MHz at stock. Not all A8-3850 chips overclock well (read here ) and increasing the base clock causes problems, too.

To: gameguard025 Subject: A8-3850 for Modern Warfare 2 sir tanong ko lang po kung kaya ng a8-3850 ung mw2 maxed 1366x768 resolution??tnx! Yes Modern Warfare 3 is even very playable at 1920 x 1080 using High settings To: ronkx Subject: A8-3850 with HD 6850 Does having an APU paired with 6850 (his) has any significant improvement over an i3 processor + 6850? None Do you already have an A8-3850? If yes, it 's ok to pair it with an HD 6850 If you are buying a new PC, it 's better to pair HD 6850 with an AMD FX-4100 or an Intel Core i3 2100.

on 01 Jun 12 @ 05:57 PM. To: monsteromen Subject: Frame Times i was excited to see the thread then all those charts and numbers just made me uninterested because of the use of time frame and rates rather than just fps:( I understand your concern but believe me, frame time benchmarking is superior to frame rate benchmarking in GPU performance assessment The link to the article explaining the principle behind frame time benchmarking was indicated in the Test Methodology section of this review. Here it is for your convenience Frame time benchmarking is really not that hard to understand. It 's just that most people are used to just looking at frame rates. It is a common knowledge that higher frame rates will give you a smoother gaming experience.

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That is true if everything goes 'as it should ' but it is possible that you are seeing a high frame rate number but the gaming experience is not that 'smooth ' I know that frame time benchmarking is relatively new that is why I also included the frame rate data in my test results. on 30 Aug 12 @ 05:06 PM. PROCESSOR AMD A8 3870K 3.0GHz pang overclocking yung A8-3870K, kaya siya mas mahal.

Phoronix: AMD A8-3850 With Radeon HD 6550D Last month AMD officially launched the A-Series 'Llano' Fusion APUs to much fan-fare with significantly better computational and graphics performance over the E-Series Fusion APUs and all around the new hardware being a compelling solution. On launch-day we delivered AMD A8-3500M benchmarks as we managed to procure remote access to one of the AMD Llano systems from a third-party, and we also delivered benchmarks of the Radeon HD 6620G that are found on that APU. We have now finally been sent over a Llano APU and motherboard from AMD so we are able to conduct our own set of in-depth Llano Linux tests. In this review we are examining the Radeon HD 6550D graphics capabilities on the AMD A8-3850 APU. ATOM benchmarks I think Llano is going to compete versus ATOM not versus desktop CPUs+GPUs.

Prices must be in the benchmarks Price/performance is a good benchmark. Llano can be the fast verion of Chrome OS netbooks in a near future, and depending of the price a real pain in the ass to ATOM netbooks, even with MS WOS. Remember that the Asus Eee and similars works fine with Linux and OSX - pirate, but works - and MS WOS 7 has a very limited special OS done specially for avoiding the spread of Linux systems preinstalled on this devices. Cad2012 for mac pro.

Now with the preinstalled Chrome OS netbooks with linux will have other oportunity and if Llano arrives on time and in price ATOM would have to improve A LOT its GPU. I think Llano is going to compete versus ATOM not versus desktop CPUs+GPUs.Do you even know what processors Llano includes? How exactly is a quad core 2.9ghz processor close to atom performance?

The fastest atom I see is dual core 1.8ghz. And the graphics (nvidia ion) that comes with them would be garbage compared to the Llano A8-3530MX vid card. Llano is meant for low/mid range computers. It's not AMD top end stuff, that is coming out later. I think you meant that AMD Bobcat competes with Atom (and dual core 1.6ghz e-350 bobcat still better than atom+ion). Did you read this phoronix review linkted to in this article:.

It shows amd quad core vs amd dual core vs atom. Atom is slowest and the quad core blows both dual cores away. A6-3400m is the slowest laptop quad core. This article talks about the fastest desktop quad core (a8-3850). Regarding memory scaling, I have tested Llano A8-3850, 8GB: 2x DDR3-1866 G.Skil RipJaws-X, Asus F1A75M-Pro, seeting the memory to 1333 and 1866 speed respectively,. All at 1280x1024 (my 2nd TFT). I also did to show thet ram speed doesn't matter there.

And compared to my old Phenom 9350e (Phenom 1st generation, 4x 2.0 GHz). Also reduced Llano to 2.0 Hz for comparison. I can barely see visited links in this forum so I set them to bold. I used (K)Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha which runs fine with the catalyst driver, I even got decent screen output with the Radeon driver delivered by Ubuntu, yet had big problems with setting the screen res there.

The driver sees a VGA and a DVI screen while only DVI was connected. Power usage for me is idle: 30W idle with Catalyst, 35W with Radeon.

Only CPU fan plus Notebook HDD attached, P/S: Enermax Pro82+ 385W. Full load under Unigine Tropics: upto 115W. Prime95: 110W. When I set CPU voltage to 1.25 (prime stable) I get max load closely under 100W. Btw: accordingt to lanet3dnow.de their Llano had CPU Voltage-ID at 1.275V, the board set close to 1.4V though.

I think there's somethin wrong with a BIOS lib, MSI told them this would be fixed with the next BIOS. My board sets 1.41V by default.

Youre totally confusing Llano (eg. A8-3850, Quadcore, 2.9 GHz, 2x DDR3-1866, GPU: 400 SPs, 100W) with Zacate (eg. E-350, Dualcore, 1.6 GHz, 1x DDR3-1066, GPU: 80 SPs, 18W).i asked for price/performance, but i think this kind of CPU+GPU processors are more for portable devices as netbooks - not as cheap as ATOM, but a litle more expensive and far better performance - for a near future - this computer world is fast and ATOM is aged.

But i missed the 100W MY MISTAKE. Of course for desktop as ATOMs compact models. But i do not see them at big cases - perhaps it is my mistake - at least not as a best selled. And of course as a nextgen processor is really much faster than an ATOM, but Price / performance versus ATOM and desktop computers - being in the middle of both markets I hope - would be good, in my opinion too.

I would like a score as futuremark for phoronix test suite with a 100 or 1000 base on a known model as a mac mini or similar to really compare at one sight performance between computers. Mitcoes: Llano for desktops is a very good OEM product (sources claim they rip it from AMD's hands) as it's cheap to build a box with enough CPU power for almost all users plus a middle class GPU with typical OEM characteristics. You just need a case, psu, board, a/cpu, ram, drive, optical and cooling. No need for a seperate gfx card and comes with 4x USB 3.0, 6x SATA 6G and enough PCIe-lanes for PEG and all peripherals at still-up-to-date 2.0 speeds. Cheap package, less parts needed, easy cooling, full features for mainstream. Simple as that.

But to me, it's also a very good DIY part because I have very low idle power (you'll have at least +10W with a discrete card, whichever middle class CPU you choose) and enough horse power for my needs CPU and GPU wise. And all the state of the art peripheral links.