AMD A10-7870K Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux

Due to the limited time since buying the A10-7870K Godavari, for this first batch of test results they're purely processor benchmarks. In articles to follow in the days ahead, there will be tests of the faster Radeon R7 Graphics on both the Gallium3D and Catalyst drivers along with plenty of other tests. When done with this testing, the A10-7870K system will then be commissioned inside the basement server room for LinuxBenchmarking.com purposes of daily performance tracking of most likely the mainline Linux kernel Git.

With the limited time thus far and this not being a full-blown review but rather reference benchmarks for a recent purchase, the tests today are comparing the A10-7870K to the A10-7850K and on the Intel side was the Haswell Core i3 4130 and Core i5 4670. An ASUS A88XM-E motherboard was used for the Kaveri/Godavari APUs while the common hardware was 2 x 8GB of DDR3-2400 memory and 250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD. Ubuntu 15.04 x86_64 was the distribution being tested today with the Linux 3.19 kernel with GCC 4.9.2 and Catalyst 15.4 Beta driver as packaged for Ubuntu Vivid.

With all of the benchmarking being done via the open-source Phoronix Test Suite software, it's very easy to compare your own Linux system's performance to the results in this article. Simply install the Phoronix Test Suite and then run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1506108-BE-GODAVARI444. This will produce a fully-automated, standardized, side-by-side performance comparison against the results to be shown on the following pages.