Memory Scaling On The AMD Kaveri A10-7850K APU

Open CL Performance

 PCMark 8

The PCMark 8 Home benchmark includes workloads that reflect common tasks for a typical home user. These workloads have low computational requirements making PCMark 8 Home suitable for testing the performance of low-cost tablets, notebooks and desktops. Home includes workloads for web browsing, writing, gaming, photo editing, and video chat. The results are combined to give a PCMark 8 Home score for your system. Download here.

PCMark 8 showed a modest boost in performance but nothing to write home about and certainly nothing to make you want to splash out on an expensive high speed memory kit.

Luxmark GPU

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.

Luxmark shows more promising results as it’s a GPU compute application that can take advantage of additional bandwidth.

Basemark OpenCL

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.

Basemark is another OpenCL application that utilises GPU compute and see some really solid scaling here just from upgrading the memory.