How AMD's Fusion A8-3850 APU Changes Personal Computing

Benchmark tests


3DMark Vantage

While this test uses only DirectX 10, it's still a quite demanding test, especially for weaker hardware. Llano delivers excellent results considering it has an integrated GPU. It also becomes evident, that the APU is highly dependant upon memory performance. There is a big gap when going from DDR3-1333 to DDR3-1600. DDR3-1866 can further improve performance, but the advantage is not that prominent at that point.

3DMark 11

This test shows a similar result as it's predecessor with respect to memory scaling. In general it is quite an impressive result, definitely the fastest integrated GPU to date.


AIDA64 Memory Tests

These tests show how additional memory bandwidth affects actual transfer rates. Also the latency is considerably lower as we move up in frequency.


Cinebench

Here we can see, that the memory also affects CPU performance. The impact is not as big as for 3D applications where the GPU is stressed too, but still these are nice gains nonetheless


WinRAR

As a rather memory dependant test, it is fairly expected that it scales very well as we improve memory performance.