dd AMD A8-5600K APU testing with a ASUS F2A55-M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 1024MB on Slackware 14.1 via the Phoronix Test Suite. a8: Processor: AMD A8-5600K APU @ 3.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS F2A55-M, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD1001FALS-0 + 165GB Hitachi HDT722516DLA380, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 1024MB (822/1600MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC887-VD, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168 OS: Slackware 14.1, Kernel: 3.10.17 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.10.5, Display Server: X Server 1.14.3, OpenGL: 4.4.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 + Clang 3.3 + LLVM 3.3, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better a8 . 2476 |==================================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better a8 . 9220.75 |================================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better a8 . 9124.44 |================================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better a8 . 58.55 |=================================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better a8 . 13820.10 |================================================================