AMD Kabini AM1 Athlon 5350 APU (FS1b) Review

Productivity Performance

x264 HD Benchmark 5.0

x264 HD benchmark is a benchmark that allows you to measure how fast your PC can encode a 1080p video clip into a high quality x264 video file. It allows for an easy comparison because everyone running it will use the safe video clip and software. Download here.

Handbrake

HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs. Download here.

WinRAR

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file formats. Download here.

JPEG Decoder

The JPEG decoder is a purpose-built benchmark from AMD designed to show how the new Kaveri APUs can leverage a more efficient decoding method compared to the built in Windows decoder. Not available for download.

LibreOffice

LibreOffice is the free power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. Support and documentation is free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers. Download here.

In LibreOffice the Athlon 5350 actually offers a better overall experience than the Core i3 4330 because of the GPU acceleration that the Core i3 4330 cannot use properly.

TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Download here.