Socket AM4 - AMD Bristol Ridge A12-9800 Benchmarks

Published 2016-09-22 17:36 by Hilbert Hagedoorn

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#5337755

Embra

2016-09-22 18:31

Nice bump in performance. I wonder how much the OC improves the performance.

#5337766

Kaarme

2016-09-22 19:11

the power efficiency went down pretty good, roughly 20 Watts has been shaved off, even 30 Watts when running Prime95

Actually if power efficiency goes down, then the CPU eats more electricity but produces less computing results.

#5337786

vbetts

Moderator

2016-09-22 19:49

Well that makes me happy some. 😀 Now one question, I thought the APU uses memory in the system, so why does the igpu show DDR3 memory? Just hoping that GPUz cannot read it correctly.

#5337803

Koniakki

2016-09-22 20:13

I tried to translate the slides with google translate app. lol

Actually if power efficiency goes down, then the CPU eats more electricity but produces less computing results.

Pretty sure they meant power consumption went down while performance went up.. :P

#5337806

Picolete

2016-09-22 20:15

I want to see APUs tested in games like DOOM(vulkan vs OGL 4.5) to see if there is really an improvement

#5337823

vbetts

Moderator

2016-09-22 21:17

I want to see APUs tested in games like DOOM(vulkan vs OGL 4.5) to see if there is really an improvement

You will in a couple of weeks. 😀 I'm excited for this, assuming all goes well in performance this may be my next living room rig.

#5337881

heffeque

2016-09-23 01:07

You will in a couple of weeks. 😀 I'm excited for this, assuming all goes well in performance this may be my next living room rig.

I'll wait for Raven Ridge (Zen + Polaris).

#5337904

3x3cUt0r

2016-09-23 02:47

The first result set on theÂ*Socket AM4 AMD Bristol Ridge A12-9800 have been spotted, the processor currently is only available for OEM. Mind you we are not talking ZEN here. This is a 28nm part based... Socket AM4 - AMD Bristol Ridge A12-9800 Benchmarks

That makes no sense...

#5338071

schmidtbag

2016-09-23 15:45

If Zen is supposed to be 40% faster than this, I'd say AMD's future looks pretty promising. From what I recall, Excavator on DDR3 is pretty competitive with Sandy Bridge parts (though still slightly slower). Seems to me Excavator on DDR4 would be roughly equal to Sandy Bridge. Using this as a reference point: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwju2fLmzqXPAhXBej4KHX_ZBZ4QFggeMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.anandtech.com%2Fshow%2F9483%2Fintel-skylake-review-6700k-6600k-ddr4-ddr3-ipc-6th-generation%2F9&usg=AFQjCNH2Ifuo_u8ms0H1vDRvI4kHBNNZhw&sig2=gKdJrvWTalHEQp_ODjKhpw Skylake is, on average, about 24% faster than SB. Even if Zen is only 20% faster than Excavator on average (which I find much more believable than 40%) I'd say they've got a product worth buying, assuming the price is competitive.

#5338094

BLEH!

2016-09-23 17:30

4.8 gigs on the a12 according to anandtech.

#5338291

heffeque

2016-09-24 11:01

They are looking at least a 10 percent per year IPC increase with Zen+ and it's two 'partially confirmed' successors. What comes after could be the virtualised CPU. Basically it means having the CPU processing capability as a 'pool', maybe just shared between say, two, three or four cores, and threads can utilise whatever processing power from the pool as they need.

IMO what would really give AMD a boost is a wider use of OpenCL, taking into consideration that most of AMD's CPUs are APUs, and taking into consideration the high number of useful threads that Zen will have.