AMD A8-5600k APU Processor 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.

When comparing two FM1 processors to the new FM2 5600k in Cinebench, we can see that AMD possibly got something wrong when it comes to calculations and rendering as the newer 5600k came at the bottom of our tests with the older technology performing better. The overclock to 4.4GHz did help but still only managed to push ahead of a stock running 3870k Llano APU.

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.

It was exactly the same story with Super PI and saw similar results with the A8-5600k giving us the slowest calculation time with the A8-3870k beating it by around 4 minutes quicker. Even with the overclock to 4.4GHz, the 5600k wasn’t able to push past a stock performing 3870k.