CPU Performance Results

SuperPi

Super Pi serves as our memory-focused benchmark, being highly single-threaded. Platform performance isn't really all that high to begin with, but we expect Gigabyte to perform well here, given the flexibility we saw in the BIOS.

wPrime

wPrime is much more CPU-focused, but memory plays its role as well. Results here are a little bit lower than expected, but with no L3 cache on our APU, it's not very surprising to see seemingly low results.

WinRAR

Part of our motherboard benchmarking suite is the built-in benchmark that is part of the WinRAR software suite. Like the other benchmarks we've seen so far, the result is low, but sometimes benchmarks don't tell the full story.

AIDA64

We employed AIDA64's memory bench to highlight memory bandwidth. We isolate the write performance metric as it serves as a good indicator of overall memory performance. Here, we were rather surprised by the low write performance, as this platform is generally expected to be a bit better than its 45nm brethren. At the same time, we had pretty good results when overclocking, which may hint that there's some untapped performance available via BIOS tweaking.

HandBrake Encoding

Handbrake is used for encoding testing, where we perform a real-world test by encoding a video file to another format. Again we see low results, but that's more platform performance than indicative of board performance directly.

CineBench Encoding

Cinebench really seems to put this platform at the bottom of the pile, and tied in with the rest of the results we've seen, you might wonder what AMD was thinking. Truth be told, however, during regular usage on the Internet, and even gaming, performance seemed more than adequate, and actually fairly impressive considering the AMD APUs are CPU, GPU, and chipset, all wrapped up in one, with very low latency thanks to everything being so close together.