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AMD 5800K “Trinity” review

Sumon Pathak

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Hey guys….
How are ya all?
Well…this review am bringing in today is a follow up on my previous preview here .
So you guys are going to see a lot of old stuff picked up from that piece..so dont kill me!

Allright here goes..

now,we all know the lower end is where the action is and we have too many competitors on that range;some utterly overpriced,some utterly disappointing and some real brilliant performers.

Today we bring to you one such CPU from this range : AMD A10 5800K.
This little guy here is being projected as what one should have in an entry-level gaming PC or HTPC setup.
So lets see if its worth the hype..shall we?

let’s have a look at the specification of the lineup in general before we dive in the performance numbers and all..shall we?

APU Model A10-5800K A10-5700 A8-5600K A8-5500 A6-5400K A4-5300
AMD Radeon™ Brand HD 7660D HD 7660D HD 7560D HD 7560D HD 7540D HD 7480D
TDP 100W 65W 100W 65W 65W 65W
AMD Radeon™ Cores 384 384 256 256 192 128
GPU Clock Speed 800 MHz 760 MHz 760 MHz 760 MHz 760 MHz 724 MHz
CPU Cores 4 4 4 4 2 2
CPU Clock (Turbo/Base) GHz 4.2/3.8 4.0/3.4 3.9/ 3.6 3.7/ 3.2 3.8/3.6 3.6/3.4
Total L2 Cache 4MB 4MB 4MB 4MB 1MB 1MB
Max DDR3 1866 1866 1866 1866 1866 1600
AMD Turbo Core 3.0 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Unlocked1 Yes No Yes No Yes No

The cpu we will be reviewing today is the flagship:A10 5800K

AMD A10 5800K
 Description
Tech/Package 32nm, FM2 socket
TDP 100W
Processor Core “Piledriver” 32nm HKMG process core , 128 KB L1 Cache (64 KB Instruction, 64 KB Data) 4 MB L2, 2 x 128-bit FPUs / compute module
Memory Up to DDR3 1866 @ 1.5V
Graphics Core 384 Radeon™ Cores 2.0, DirectX® 11 capable, UVD3, VCE
Displays -Digital Display I/F DP0: Display Port, HDMI, DVI-Digital Display I/F DP1: Display Port, HDMI, DVI-Digital Display I/F DP2: Display Port, HDMI, DVIAdditional digital display supported using DP 1.2 daisy-chain connection-VGA on FCH
Power Management • Multiple low-power states• 32-nm process for decreased power consumption• System Management Mode (SMM)•ACPI-compliant, including support for processor performance states (P-states), processor power states(C-states), and sleep states including S0, S3, S4, and S5• Per compute module power gating (CC6)• PCIe® core power gating• PCIe® speed power policy• GPU power gating of Radeon™ Cores and video decode (UVD3)• AMD Turbo Core 3.0 technology

Now with that aside i will give you a small diagram of the die and dive into performance numbers

Now before we start with the technical number and stuff i would like to get you accustomed with the setup i used.

Test System
CPU AMD A10 5800K
Motherboard Asus F2A85 M Pro
Ram Kingston 1600Mhz 16GB DDR3 running @ 1866MHz 9-10-9-27
Storage Western Digital 320GB HDD (WD320AAKX)
Video Card On Chip 7660D
Cooling Noctua NH D14 with GT 1850 fans
Case Ghetto made bench table
Power supply Unit Corsair AX 1200W

and a few pictures of the setup and to take care of the mandatory showcase (not that am complaining).

The chip up close

The bare setup

and we will wrap this up with a few more beauty shots and dive into numbers.

the FCH heatsink looks pretty nice on this board.

The VRM heatsink also compliments the theme..as expected.

a few more shots.

Enough with the pictures..time to see how it performs…
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the  benchmark data is divided into two parts for this review…one for the CPU side of things..and the second is for GPU performance..but sadly my sample was not too strong on the GPU side…so i spent too much time to stabilize it than run benchmarks..guess i was not too lucky in silicon lottery.

But that aside lets see how it performs..

Every benchmark was run until the results were consistent to rule out margin of errors as much as possible.

First is the Aida 64 benchmark suite. The routine consists of different benchmark that stresses the CPU and FPU performance.

I will let the graphs do the talking.

AIDA 64 CPU Suite

QUEEN

PhotoWorxx

Zlib

AES

HASH

Aida 64 FPU Suite

Julia

SinJulia

VP8

Mandel

So there goes the AIDA 64 benchmark suite.Overall everything looks good for that price point.

next up is a few real world workloads like Cinebench and POV Ray and 7Zip and x264 FHD benchmark.

Cinebench 11.5

POV Ray

 7 Zip

X264 FHD

So this take cares of the CPU side of things..all in all a pretty strong contender at this price point.

So now comes the gaming and 3D part for which this lineup is famous.

I didn’t get much time to run my whole gpu suite since i was busy in achieving a stable overclock(unlucky me!)
So don’t kill me after u see the amount of games i managed to run.
I promise i will run a full suite if i ever have the change again…

Anyway..enough talk lets see how the 3D side stacks up..

First benchmark is :

Aliens VS. Predator is DirectX 11 benchmark which provides stunning graphics through the use of DirectX 11 Tessellation and DirectX 11 Advanced Shadow features, Geometry Tessellation is applied in an effective manner to enhance and more accurately depict famous Alien design. Through the use of a variety of adaptive schemes, applying tessellation when and where it is necessary, the perfect blend of performance and eye candy is achieved.

Battlefield 3 is a first-person shooter video game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE and published by Electronic Arts. It is a direct sequel to 2005′s Battlefield 2, and the twelfth installment in the Battlefield franchise. The game uses Frostbite 2 which is the next generation of Frostbite Engine. It takes full advantage of the DirectX 11 API and 64-bit processors,with no support for DirectX 9 so NO XP.It also features enhanced in-game destruction with Destruction 3.0, creating more refined physics than its predecessor and quasi-realtime radiosity using Geomerics’ Enlighten technology.

 

Crysis is a FPS series developed by German developer Crytek and published by Electronic Arts. The series revolves around a group of military protagonists with “nanosuits,” technologically advanced suits of armor that allow them to gain enhanced physical strength, speed, defense, and cloaking abilities. The protagonists face off against hostile North Korean soldiers, heavily-armed mercenaries, and a race of technologically advanced aliens known as the Ceph, who arrived on Earth millions of years ago for unclear reasons, and have recently been awakened. the game uses “cryEngine” which very demanding on the GPU and had made itself an benchmark from the time of its release. The story continues through 3 games.

And a few synthetic benchmarks.

Benchmark Score
3DMark Vantage Performance preset P5992
3DMark 11 Performance preset P1595
Heaven DX 11 Extreme Preset X181
Catzilla 720P preset 1893

with that I wrap up my review..
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Amd started the APU revolution with their llano series of processors.Which was a success among the people looking for something they can use in a fan-less silent system with the ability to game a bit.trinity picked up from where llano left and carried on the legacy quite gracefully.

We have a fairly powerful CPU on one hand which can handle everyday HTPC and home uses.
On the other hand we have a fairly powerful GPU when compared to the other on chip offerings which can handle a little bit of gaming while being able to run in a small form factor PC.

So overall AMD manged to pull off a pretty nice package for a wide user base.
And the chip-sets offer superb VFM in this price range.

All in all a 3.5 out of 5 rating for me and Team OCFreaks.

A special thanks to AMD for providing me with the review sample and Sanjib Ray for helping me out with a camera.

signing out

Sumon Pathak

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