Data compression & Multimedia Test

7zip 9.20

Let's move to the benchmarks related to compression, decompression and multimedia files from a known program to manage archives: 7zip.

Let's launch the tool of performance measurement and verify the values, expressed in MIPS, the software reports.

The AMD A6-3650 is positioned at the penultimate position, leaving behind the Intel i3-2100, and closely followed his mayor brother A8-3850.

WINRAR 4 Beta 3

The Winrar benchmark consists of the compression of a software predefined file, reporting a value in KB/s.

Even in this case the new solution gains the last position with a good clearance from A8 APU.

CINEBENCH 11.5

Let's launch Cinebench 11.5, able to test the performance of a CPU by handling and processing of images.

This software, as well as version 10, is highly parallelized and takes full advantage of all processors in the system.

The new AMD APU ranks penultimate, leaving behind the intel I3-2100 and recording an MP ratio of well 3.96, a value much higher than many solutions.

CINEBENCH 10

Also this benchmark uses full multicore technologies.

Let's analyze the recorded data.

In this bench the A6-3650 is able to earn some position approaching AMD Phenom II BE 955 operating at a frequency of 3.2GHz; although this is obviously far from the values ​​reported by Intel solutions, except for the i3- 2100 that sits in last place.

X264 HD BENCHMARK

This benchmark enables the assessment of performance by converting a chosen file in the x264 format.

This operation is carried out in four phases of two steps each.

Even in this case the Intel i3-2100 proves more powerful of AMD A6 in the first step; the medal was reversed looking at the derived from the second step of the benchmark.

HandBrake

Let's launch Handbrake with the task of transforming a 698MB movie in MP4 verifying which processor needs less time to complete the operation; in this case a lower value on the graph indicates a superior performance.

This bench does not leave much to interpretation, the new AMD A6-3650 is detected much slower than the other solutions as much as 1 minute and a half.

Considerations on CPU test

The considerations regarding the testing of the CPU are in line with those reported in the previous review that had as its subject the AMD A8-3850 with the only difference that in this case the performances are less than other solutions, more markedly.

The gap with the same A8 is revealed net in favor of the latter. It's clear that AMD has not pointed on the performance of the 4 x86 computing cores. Let's see how it behaves this APU in graphics tests.