AMD A10-6800k & A10-6700 ‘Richland’ APU Review

Cinebench R11.5

CINEBENCH is a real-world cross platform test suite that evaluates your computer’s performance capabilities. CINEBENCH is based on MAXON’s award-winning animation software CINEMA 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. MAXON software has been used in blockbuster movies such as Spider-Man, Star Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia and many more. CINEBENCH is the perfect tool to compare CPU and graphics performance across various systems and platforms (Windows and Mac OS X). And best of all: It’s completely free.

Looking at the two Richland APUs over the older generation Trinity chips, there is a good gain in performance to be seen from their previous generation counterparts. The A10-6700 sees a 16.6% gain in performance up from 2.88 to 3.36, whilst the 6800k sees a gain of just under 11% up from 3.22 to 3.57. Overclocking the 6800k sees an additional 10% over stock performance.

Super PI

Super PI is a computer program that calculates pi to a specified number of digits after the decimal point—up to a maximum of 32 million. It uses Gauss–Legendre algorithm and is a Windows port of the program used by Yasumasa Kanada in 1995 to compute pi to 232 digits.

Whilst AMD chips in general are not well known for their SuperPI 32M calculation times, the Richland APUs are the fastest we’ve seen to date. The 6700 see a whopping 5 minutes 5 second taken off the time of the equivalent Trinity chip showing a near 20% gain in straight line performance. The 6800k also sees a faster time, shaving just under 3 minutes off the calculation time of the 5800k, bringing the stock AMD calculation times ever closer to the 20 minute mark.