AMD "Kaveri" APU Linux Review, Benchmarks Next Week

[hajj_3]

A7850 looks an ideal for a steam machine. Am I right? This will have the performance of a ps4 without the need for dedicated card, which would mean lower price and less cooling requirements / smaller enclosing.

A-7850 has ~860glops, ps4 has 1.86tflops. PS4 has gddr5, kaveri has ddr3.

This certainly can't compare to the PS4 but you will still be able to play a lot of modern games in high settings at 1600x900 or maybe 1920x1080 for some games. I think we will need to wait for 20nm apu's from amd until the gpu can close the gap on the xbox one which has around 1.3tlops especially if kaveri's successor ends up with ddr4 support.

Cpu wise it is probably more powerful than 8 jaguar cores.

[sireangelus]

they don't send them anymore cause they know that they would be obliterated by nvidia in the graphic tests, so they don't send apu cause of this too.

[Michael]

Thanks for the info! I guess I shouldn't use my phone to read benchmark articles. Even if my phone's browser supports SVG I can't tell if anything is a clickable link without a mouse pointer. I'll click on the graph titles now so I can see what aspect of the CPU/GPU is being tested and how.

The SVG graphs should be interactable otherwise let me know your browser info (in a separate thread) as it may be hitting a code-path where it's treating the browser as incapable of delivering dynamic SVG or nesting it within an <img> tag for compatibility reasons.

[jokergermany.de.vu]

It would be interessting if there is a performance difference between starting Games out of the Big Picture Mode in Ubuntu + XBMC-Standalone or Ubuntu + Gnome

they don't send them anymore cause they know that they would be obliterated by nvidia in the graphic tests, so they don't send apu cause of this too.

Nvidia have no APUs....

[Michael]

Well it looks like a "friendly engineer" might send out a A10-7850K.... so then that leaves me to decide about buying an A10-7700K on my end.

[guido12]

The SVG graphs should be interactable otherwise let me know your browser info (in a separate thread) as it may be hitting a code-path where it's treating the browser as incapable of delivering dynamic SVG or nesting it within an <img> tag for compatibility reasons.

Sorry, I meant to say that when I use my phone's browser (Firefox for Android), I don't have any mouse hover capabilies so it's hard to know if some images and other non-text objects are links. If I tap on the graph title, I do go to the openbenchmarking.org site just fine. There's nothing wrong with your site. It's just an inherent issue of not having a mouse pointer on phones.

On my desktop using Firefox, my mouse icon turns into a hand indicating the title is a link and clicking on it works as expected.

I've been reading the openbenchmarking.org test descriptions. Maybe you can add more details. For example, specify if a test is multi-threaded or not.

Thanks!

[unl34shed]

Would it be possible to test/include an i3 and/or i5 into the test as well?

I think with this it would be easier to compare the benchmarks with all those Windows ones and you could see if there is a benefit from using linux or not.

[pella]

Well it looks like a "friendly engineer" might send out a A10-7850K.... so then that leaves me to decide about buying an A10-7700K on my end.

please
don't forget testing the "LibreOffice Calc" performance !!!


see:
"In support of AMD's HSA initiative, they are looking to accelerate LibreOffice through OpenCL. "

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQwMjc

[Michael]

Would it be possible to test/include an i3 and/or i5 into the test as well?

Yes.


Also, for everyone, see: https://twitter.com/michaellarabel/s...16726063427584

[Michael]

please
don't forget testing the "LibreOffice Calc" performance !!!


see:
"In support of AMD's HSA initiative, they are looking to accelerate LibreOffice through OpenCL. "
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTQwMjc

Unfortunately it can't be tested as I am not aware of any automated LibreOffice Calc CL (or more broadly LibreOffice) benchmarks.