These APUs aren't really gamer chips to begin with, so what is with the focus on game performance? It would be much more useful to see BUSINESS SOFTWARE type workloads. You know, like scrolling through a million lines of spreadsheet with 15 sheets open on 2-4 monitors with a dozen firefox windows with a dozen tabs each, several terminals and file browsers, eclipse.... and all open at the same time. Lets see how much shit can be open before scrolling gets chunky. STUFF THAT YOU WOULD ACTUALLY DO WITH THIS TYPE OF HARDWARE!!!!
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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostThese APUs aren't really gamer chips to begin with, so what is with the focus on game performance? It would be much more useful to see BUSINESS SOFTWARE type workloads. You know, like scrolling through a million lines of spreadsheet with 15 sheets open on 2-4 monitors with a dozen firefox windows with a dozen tabs each, several terminals and file browsers, eclipse.... and all open at the same time. Lets see how much shit can be open before scrolling gets chunky. STUFF THAT YOU WOULD ACTUALLY DO WITH THIS TYPE OF HARDWARE!!!!Last edited by dungeon; 16 December 2014, 09:52 AM.
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The test was done on dual-channel DDR3-1600MHz (all of my 2133MHz memory is currently in use in the 32 system test farm), which is fine given that for all driver configurations tested in this article, the same exact hardware and software settings were used.
FYI, when running as root, the Phoronix Test Suite does attempt to report the memory configuration, frequency, and even the RAM model numbers, etc. However, it's only done as root as dmidecode, et al will only work as root. Additionally, for a lot of motherboards/chipsets, the decoding fails and there's various other issues. I've yet to see a proper universal solution for finding a nice way to obtain all of the memory information of a system -- especially as non-root.Michael Larabel
https://www.michaellarabel.com/
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Originally posted by Michael View PostThe test was done on dual-channel DDR3-1600MHz ...
... which is fine given that for all driver configurations tested in this article, the same exact hardware and software settings were used. ...
If I spend my dollars for an A10-7850K APU I will not run it with 1600 MHz RAM.
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Originally posted by drSeehas View PostBut it is not fine, if you want to compare to discrete cards.
If I spend my dollars for an A10-7850K APU I will not run it with 1600 MHz RAM.
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Originally posted by dungeon View PostMaybe you think so, but Catalyst on Windows install raptr Gaming Evolved app by default on all supported chips even on little 2 core 1 GHz semprons So all can be used for gaming, casual lightweight or demanding often... well that depends
And there is a HUGE difference between "can", and "likely". The point is that any consideration of hardware has to be based on how it performs on the workloads for which it is LIKELY to be used for.
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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostThese APUs aren't really gamer chips to begin with, so what is with the focus on game performance? It would be much more useful to see BUSINESS SOFTWARE type workloads. You know, like scrolling through a million lines of spreadsheet with 15 sheets open on 2-4 monitors with a dozen firefox windows with a dozen tabs each, several terminals and file browsers, eclipse.... and all open at the same time. Lets see how much shit can be open before scrolling gets chunky. STUFF THAT YOU WOULD ACTUALLY DO WITH THIS TYPE OF HARDWARE!!!!
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Originally posted by Nietzsche View PostHi. While testing APUs, you should include more information about the RAM used (single or dual channel, frequency and CAS latency) since it's an important performance factor.
Also, I believe he uses the fastest ddr3 available.
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