BENCHMARK UPDATE

CLARICE SIMMONS TECHNOLOGY & ISV MARKETING, CLIENT BU FEBRUARY 6, 2014

BENCHMARKS ARE ONLY AS GOOD AS WHAT THEY MEASURE AT ANY GIVEN POINT IN TIME
CHOOSE ONE THAT MEASURES REAL WORKLOADS

No single benchmark today measures all aspects of modern processorsbut some are better than others A higher score on a benchmark does not necessarily ensure better real-world productivity if that benchmark did not measure how you will use that device Benchmarks are most effective when used to establish a frame of reference vs. a fixed requirement

If a buyer makes a choice based on a benchmark and either the benchmark isnt representative of a comparative user experience or if the benchmark has been manipulated, the buyer has been misled. Pat Moorhead, Techpinions

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BENCHMARK RECOMMENDATIONS
INDUSTRY STANDARD BENCHMARKS FOR TOTAL COMPUTE

SYSTEM

COMPUTE

GRAPHICS

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PCMARK 8 IS BECOMING THE NEW GLOBAL STANDARD FOR BENCHMARKING

PCMark 8 goes beyond the CPU to measure total performance of modern processors including CPUs, GPUs and APUs

PCMark 8 is the preferred performance benchmark for AMD for a number of reasons:
Offers fair comparison of competitive systems Broadly adopted by technology reviewers Measures total performance based on typical workload scenarios Leverages industry standards such as Open CL Easy to use with one-click activation Its affordable and the best value for evaluating commercial tenders

PCMark 8 is the latest version of PC benchmarking tools from Futuremark

The industry standard PC benchmark test for Windows 8 and Windows 7. Combines performance testing with new battery life measurement tools. Ideal for testing the performance of SSDs and hybrid storage devices.

Developed in partnership with Acer, AMD, Condusiv Technologies, Dell, HGST, HP, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Samsung, SanDisk, Seagate and Western Digital
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BASEMARK CL 1.1
SUMMARIZED

Developed by Rightware, Basemark CL is the most comprehensive OpenCL benchmark suite available. With parallelism becoming the norm, it is critical to measure OpenCL in a heavy yet realistic way Basemark CL Workloads
Image Manipulation Bandwidth limitations stemming from moving data from CPU to GPU using OpenCL

Full support for OpenCL 1.1, OpenGL ES 2.0, and OpenGL 2.1. Support for Open CL 2.0 coming soon!

Smoothing Color Correction Noise Reduction Surface Aware Smoothing Sharpening

3D Soft Body Simulation Smoothed particle hydrodynamics 2D Fluid Simulation Wave Simulation 3D Mandelbulb Ray Tracing Julia Fractal Calculation Online Compiler

Physics Simulation

Computing power that OpenCL brings

General

Bottlenecks in configurations

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3DMARK
USE 3DMARK FIRE STRIKE TO MEASURE DIRECTX 11 CAPABILITIES

Fire Strike - Fire Strike is a showcase DirectX 11 benchmark designed for today's high-performance gaming PCs. Cloud Gate - Cloud Gate uses a DirectX 11 engine limited to Direct3D feature level 10 making it suitable for testing DirectX 10 compatible hardware. Ice Storm - Use 3DMark Ice Storm to compare mainstream smartphones and tablets. On Windows, Ice Storm uses a DirectX 11 engine limited to Direct3D feature level 9.
Worlds most popular benchmark featuring real-time graphics rendered with detail and complexity far beyond what is found in other benchmarks and games today
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DELIVERING PERFORMANCE ON KEY BENCHMARKS

SYSTEM PERFORMANCE, COMPUTE PERFORMANCE, GRAPHICS PERFORMANCE
PCMark 8 V2
Home

Basemark CL 1.1 A10-7850K A10-7700K i5-4670K A10-6800K A10-5700 i5-4440 48 54 70

3DMark
Firestrike

A10-7850K A10-7700K i5-4670K A10-6800K A10-5700 i5-4440 A8-6600K i3-4340 A8-5500 A6-6400K 2496 2439 2458 2204 2129

3450 3408

85

A10-7850K
A10-7700K i5-4670K A10-6800K A10-5700 i5-4440 A8-6600K i3-4340 A8-5500 A6-6400K A6-5400K 614 603 397 462 440 267 714 731 896 808 1108 996 1329

1477

3246
3229 3049 2984 2992 2856 2858

46
43 42 44 40 31 31 23

A8-6600K
i3-4340 A8-5500 A6-6400K A6-5400K Pentium G3220 A4-6300 A4-5300

838

A6-5400K Pentium G3220

A4-6300 A4-5300 Celeron 1630

Pentium G3220
A4-6300

24
23 14

A4-5300
Celeron 1630

2081

Celeron 1630

*Testing by AMD Performance labs using PCmark 8 v2 Home test, 3DMark Fire Strike, Basemark CL v.1.05 as of Jan 31, 2014. See footnote slides for details on system configurations.

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PCMARK 8 V2.0 CHANGES

SUMMARIZED BETTER ALIGNMENT WITH MODERN USE CASES

New tests were added to the Work benchmark improved office productivity use cases
Video chat test from Home benchmark now included in Work Spreadsheet (LibreOffice Calc) test added

Improved/updated tests were added to both the Home and Creative benchmark
Updated photo editing test with wider set of image processing operations (Home, Creative) Faster video chat test (Home, Creative, Work) More taxing video editing test, upped to work in Ultra HD resolution (Creative)

Bug fixes and debug support

Futuremark intends for PCMark 8 v2.0 to be a replacement for PCMark 8. Version 2.0 includes Compatibility mode that enables running also v1.2 tests.

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SCREENSHOT

Visually PCMark8 V2.0 is similar to the previous versions (1.1.111, 1.1.257) Be sure to use Run Accelerated button which uses OpenCL

All versions of PCMark 8 V2 were updated Jan 17, 2014. Contact your AMD representative for keys.
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PCMARK 8, V2 WORK TEST

JANUARY 31, 2014 RESULTS
PCMark 8 V2
Work (V2.0)
A10-7850
A10-7700K i5-4670K A10-6800K A10-5700 i5-4440 3840 3947 3816 3677 4112 4207 4353

4243

A8-6600K
i3-4340 A8-5500 A6-6400K A6-5400K Pentium G3220 0 3342 3239

3596

Crashes
3002 2924 3526

A4-6300
A4-5300 Celeron 1630 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500

3000

3500

4000

4500

5000

*See footnote slides for details on system configurations.

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PCMARK 8, V2 HOME TEST

JANUARY 31, 2014 RESULTS
PCMark 8 V2
Home

A10-7850K A10-7700K i5-4670K A10-6800K A10-5700 i5-4440 A8-6600K i3-4340 A8-5500 A6-6400K 2496 2439 2458 2204 2129 2856 2858 3049 2984 2992

3450 3408

3246
3229

A6-5400K Pentium G3220

Crashes
A4-6300 A4-5300

Celeron 1630

2081

*See footnote slides for details on system configurations.

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PCMARK 8, V2 CREATIVE
JANUARY 31, 2014 RESULTS
PCMark 8 V2
Creative
A10-7850 A10-7700K i5-4670K A10-6800K A10-5700 i5-4440 A8-6600K i3-4340 3067 2978 2821 2461 2410 2490 2155 1956 1805 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 4500 3450 3718 3830 4053

3211 3373

A8-5500
A6-6400K A6-5400K Pentium G3220 A4-6300 A4-5300 Celeron 1630

*See footnote slides for details on system configurations.

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SUMMARY

CALL TO ACTION

Transition to the new PCMark 8 V2.0 and leverage 3DMark and Basemark 1.1

We have keys!
KEYS For PCMark, 3DMark and Basemark CL Will distribute fresh keys to teams

MORE RESOURCES

Download technical guide: http://www.futuremark.com/downloads/pcmark8-technical-guidev20.pdf

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INTERNAL

Backup

PCMARK & 3DMARK ARE THE INDUSTRY STANDARD

COUNT OF BENCHMARKS USED BY TOP REVIEWERS
3DMark 11 PCMark 7
Cinebench R11.5 PCMark Vantage 3DMark 06 PCMark 8 Geekbench

ATTO disk benchmark

3DMark Vantage Passmark Performance Test 8 Passmark BatteryMon Windows Media Encoder Crysis 2

Far Cry 2
Cinebench R10 SiSoftware Sandra 2012 iTunes 3DMark Firestrike MobileMark 2007

10

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Source: Q4_2013_AMD_Publication_Benchmark_Tracker; AMD-commissioned analysis of 22 selected North America PC reviewers, Q4 2013.

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FOOTNOTES
Slides 7, 10, 11, 12: AMD tests are performed on optimized AMD reference systems. PC manufacturers may vary their configuration yielding different results. Tests were conducted on similarly configured desktop PCs with the same SSD drives, Windows 8.1 (64-bit), build 9600. Intel configs (video driver 10.18.10.3379 - 17Dec-2013): Celeron 1630 (powered by Intel HD graphics): GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H motherboard with 2x4GB DDR3-1333 RAM Pentium G2220, G3220 (powered by Intel HD graphics), i5-4339, 4440, 4670K (powered by Intel HD 4600 graphics): GIGABYTE Z87X-D3HCF motherboard with 2X4GB DDR3-1600 RAM AMD configs (video driver 13.300.0.0 - 18-Dec-2013 ): A4-5300 (powered by AMD Radeon HD 7480D graphics), 6300 (powered by AMD Radeon HD 8370D graphics) : ASUS F2A85-M PRO with 2X4GB DDR3-1600 RAM A6-5400K (powered by AMD Radeon HD 7540D graphics), A8-5500 (powered by AMD Radeon 7560D graphics), 6600K (powered by AMD Radeon 8570D graphics), A10-5700 (powered by AMD Radeon 7660D graphics): ASUS F2A85-M PRO with 2X4GB DDR3-1866 RAM A6- 6400K (powered by AMD Radeon HD 8470D graphics): ASUS F2A85M PRO with 2X4GB DDR3-1776 RAM A10- 6800K (powered by AMD Radeon 8670D graphics): ASUS F2A85-M PRO with 2X4GB DDR3-2133 RAM A10-7700K, 7850K (powered by AMD Radeon R7 series graphics): ASUS A88X-PRO with 2X4GB DDR-2133 RAM
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