AMD A10-5700 Trinity Desktop APU - Going Back for Seconds
Results - Integrated Graphics Performance
Integrated and Dual Graphics Performance
Although the AMD A10-5700 APU still boasts of the same Radeon HD 7660D graphics core as the A10-5800K, the former's graphics engine operates at a slower 760MHz clock speed, versus the 800MHz GPU clock of the A10-5800K. It will be interesting to see how this affects actual gaming performance. We also proceeded to ascertain how well AMD Dual Graphics technology worked when we pair the A10-5700K with a Radeon HD 6670 discrete graphics card. For this part of our benchmarking, we also turned off the AMD Dual Graphics technology, leaving our discrete GPU in the form of the Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 graphics card to churn out graphics performance on the same test bed. This will give us some insights to improvements made from enabling Dual Graphics Technology.
Futuremark 3DMark Vantage
3DMark scores are looking pretty rosy for even the integrated graphics performance on the A10-5700 as it's just 4.7% off from its A10-5800K brother. This means, it still delivers firepower that can almost match a GeForce GT 440 discrete graphics card and is notably speedier than any other processor's integrated graphics performance.
With the AMD Dual Graphics technology turned on, the graphics performance of the A10-5700 was boosted by about 17% as compared to the score achieved when AMD Dual Technology was turned off, i.e., the APU was running off the Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 discrete graphics card without the support of Dual Graphics. Overall boost from this pairing is slightly over 62% against just the Trinity GPU's own capability.
Far Cry 2
Now with a real DX10 game, we think the A10-5700 does a marvelous job in maintaining near identical integrated graphics performance to the A10-5800K, despite the clock speed differential both on the CPU and GPU front. Intel's IGP is far behind no matter it's a Core i3 or a Core i7 part. Oddly, the A10-5700 had wore performance with AMD Dual Graphics enabled than it was disabled. But in any case, the top-end A10-5800K hardly benefited either.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Once more, we find the A10-5700 raking in excellent integrated graphics performance, while smoking the competition. The reduced clock speeds has hardly degraded the A10-5700's gaming performance against the A10-5800K.
In line with our previous test experience with the A10-5800K APU, the Dual Graphics technology showed its mettle when we cranked up the gaming settings to "High" as seen in the second attached graph. Although with a slightly slower 760GHz GPU clock, the AMD A10-5700 still managed to churn out frame rates above 30fps and with the benefit of Dual Graphics technology, its integrated graphics performance was boasted by a margin of slightly over 89%. Do note that the Intel HD Graphics 2500 in the form of the Intel Core i3-3220 failed to execute this gaming benchmark even at the medium game quality settings.
CPU Utilization on Media Decoding
The A10-5700 turned in rather impressive performance for this test and actually fared better than the A10-5800K, rivaling discrete class GPUs.