AMD Kabini AM1 Athlon 5350 APU (FS1b) Review

OpenCL Performance

Basemark OpenCL – GPU

Basemark CL by Rightware is a comprehensive benchmark tool designed to measure the performance of OpenCL 1.1 implementations on various devices ranging from desktops to embedded systems. Basemark CL uses OpenGL ES 2.0 or OpenGL 2.1 for rendering, depending on the platform. Download here.

OpenCL has always been a strong point for AMD and Basemark exposes the relatively castrated GPU performance of the 5350. However, it still does well considering the price.

Compubench CL 1.1.3 – GPU

CompuBench is a unified performance benchmarking tool that gives realistic feedback on the performance of various compute API implementations used for parallel programming of heterogeneous systems. Based on CLBenchmark, the first professional OpenCL benchmark on the market, it compares CPUs, GPUs and accelerators of desktop and mobile devices by their compute performance characteristics. Download here.

In Compubench we actually see the Athlon 5350 beat the Core i3 4330 in one of the tests. However, in the other test we clearly see the Athlon 5350 struggles – this is probably due to the low frequencies.

Luxmark – GPU, CPU and Combined

LuxMark is a OpenCL benchmark tool. The idea for the program was conceived in 2009 by Jean-Francois ‘Jromang’ Romang. The idea was quite simple, wrap SLG inside an easy to use graphical user interface and use it as a benchmark for OpenCL. Download here.

In Luxmark we again see that strange situation – the GPU performance is less than the CPU performance, I’m so used to this being the other way around with AMD.