AMD Kaveri Catalyst GPU Turbo Boost AMD A10-7850K APU with Radeon R7 testing of the UEFI BIOS tunables for the GPU Boost/Turbo mode. Testing by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix. Auto: Processor: AMD A10-7850K APU with Radeon R7 @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS A88X-PRO, Chipset: AMD Device 1422, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon R7 1024MB (720/1066MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: fglrx 13.30.1, OpenGL: 4.3.12682, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GPU Burst Turbo: Processor: AMD A10-7850K APU with Radeon R7 @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS A88X-PRO, Chipset: AMD Device 1422, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon R7 1024MB (900/1066MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: fglrx 13.30.1, OpenGL: 4.3.12682, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GPU Burst Extreme: Processor: AMD A10-7850K APU with Radeon R7 @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS A88X-PRO, Chipset: AMD Device 1422, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon R7 1024MB (960/1066MHz), Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: VA2431, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.12.0-031200-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.5, Display Driver: fglrx 13.30.1, OpenGL: 4.3.12682, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Doom 3 1.3.1 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Auto .............. 79.17 |=================================================== GPU Burst Turbo ... 80.90 |==================================================== GPU Burst Extreme . 81.43 |==================================================== Nexuiz 2.5.2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Auto .............. 41.65 |=================================================== GPU Burst Turbo ... 42.05 |==================================================== GPU Burst Extreme . 42.19 |==================================================== OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Auto .............. 135.53 |=================================================== GPU Burst Turbo ... 132.37 |================================================== GPU Burst Extreme . 134.47 |=================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Auto .............. 29.10 |==================================================== GPU Burst Turbo ... 29.00 |==================================================== GPU Burst Extreme . 29.00 |==================================================== Prey 1.4.119 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Auto .............. 44.20 |==================================================== GPU Burst Turbo ... 44.50 |==================================================== GPU Burst Extreme . 44.53 |==================================================== Reaction Quake 3 1.0 Beta Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better GPU Burst Turbo . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 11.1 MAX: 37.0 Unigine Sanctuary 2.3 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Auto .............. 31.52 |================================================= GPU Burst Turbo ... 32.88 |==================================================== GPU Burst Extreme . 33.13 |==================================================== Unigine Sanctuary 2.3 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Auto .............. 24.01 |================================================= GPU Burst Turbo ... 25.06 |=================================================== GPU Burst Extreme . 25.33 |==================================================== Unigine Tropics 1.3 Resolution: 1280 x 1024 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Auto .............. 23.37 |================================================== GPU Burst Turbo ... 24.06 |==================================================== GPU Burst Extreme . 24.19 |==================================================== Unigine Tropics 1.3 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Auto .............. 17.56 |================================================== GPU Burst Turbo ... 18.03 |==================================================== GPU Burst Extreme . 18.13 |==================================================== Warsow 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Auto .............. 59.37 |=================================================== GPU Burst Turbo ... 60.53 |==================================================== GPU Burst Extreme . 60.73 |==================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Auto .............. 164.50 |=================================================== GPU Burst Turbo ... 162.75 |================================================== GPU Burst Extreme . 162.87 |================================================== Xonotic 0.7 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Auto .............. 63.43 |==================================================== GPU Burst Turbo ... 63.58 |==================================================== GPU Burst Extreme . 63.77 |==================================================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Plot3D - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Auto .............. 10431 |==================================================== GPU Burst Turbo ... 10471 |==================================================== GPU Burst Extreme . 10526 |==================================================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Auto .............. 333 |====================================================== GPU Burst Turbo ... 329 |===================================================== GPU Burst Extreme . 328 |===================================================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Auto .............. 71690 |================================================== GPU Burst Turbo ... 74015 |==================================================== GPU Burst Extreme . 73893 |==================================================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Auto .............. 151 |========================================= GPU Burst Turbo ... 189 |=================================================== GPU Burst Extreme . 200 |====================================================== GpuTest 0.6.0 Test: Pixmark Volplosion - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Points > Higher Is Better Auto .............. 461 |=============================================== GPU Burst Turbo ... 530 |====================================================== GPU Burst Extreme . 522 |===================================================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Auto .............. MIN: 5.0 AVG: 34.3 MAX: 79.0 GPU Burst Turbo ... MIN: 5.0 AVG: 34.4 MAX: 79.0 GPU Burst Extreme . MIN: 5.0 AVG: 34.4 MAX: 80.0