AMD Kaveri A10-7850K Overclocking Analysis

Gaming Performance

3DMark11

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3DMark11 showed a significant jump of almost 30% – very impressive numbers indeed.

3DMark

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Into 3DMark and we saw a similarly high boost of about 25% which bodes well for gaming.

Batman Arkham Origins, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite, Metro Last Light, Sleeping Dogs and Tomb Raider

Game scaling perhaps wasn’t as impressive as 3DMark led me to believe it would be. Scaling was typically 10% or less and it’s easy to see that most games scale more from making the jump from 1866MHz RAM to 2400MHz RAM than they do from having a 720MHz to 1028MHz overclock – which to me does seem a bit strange but is easily explained. It would imply that the APU is still memory bandwidth limited at 2400MHz so overclocking makes little difference, this also explains why compute applications scale so well because they are not that bandwidth dependent and can take advantage of the increased GPU clock speed.