AMD A10-7870K Godavari APU Review

CPU Benchmarks – Ashes of the Singularity, Cinebench, Handbrake, WPrime and WinRAR

Ashes of the Singularity

The Ashes of the Singularity benchmark is exceptionally useful for differentiating between a number of CPUs. As you can see, it’s a brutal test which punishes lower-end solutions and results in major stuttering. Despite this, it’s clear that the AMD A10-7870K outperforms rival products and exhibits a good boost once overclocked.

Cinebench R15

In Cinebench R15, the APU records a pretty decent set of scores and enjoyed a noticeable lead over the AMD x4-845. After the overclock was applied, the multi-threaded score increase considerably although the single-threaded result still fell behind a budget Pentium dual-core processor.

Handbrake

Here we can see the AMD A10-7870K completes the conversion task in a respectable time and just edged the slightly cheaper AMD A10-7850K. Interestingly, the overclock dramatically reduces the conversion times and provides the end-user with a better experience when tackling video workloads.

WPrime

During the WPrime benchmark, the APU managed to defeat the AMD A10-7850K rather easily and wasn’t too adrift of breaking the 400-second mark. After the overclock was enabled, the processor became more much competitive and remained within a small distance of the AMD X4-845.

WinRAR

Rather bizarrely, the AMD A10-7850K came out on top by an impressive margin and even surpassed the higher performing chip in AMD’s range running at 4.5GHz. I’m not entirely sure why this is the case but it’s probably due to a margin of error.