Kernel Comparison with an A10-7850K and Fedora 25
I will post the second part once the 4.10 update comes to F25


A10-7850K Kernel 4.9: 

	Processor: AMD A10-7850K Radeon R7 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G @ 3.70GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS A68HM-PLUS, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 7168MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD10EZEX-00B, Graphics: ASUS AMD Radeon R7 1024MB, Audio: AMD Kaveri HDMI/DP, Monitor: ASUS VP228, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411

	OS: Fedora 25, Kernel: 4.9.14-200.fc25.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.1, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 13.0.4 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.9.1), Compiler: GCC 6.3.1 20161221, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


TSCP 1.81
AI Chess Performance
Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better
A10-7850K Kernel 4.9 . 768600 |================================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
A10-7850K Kernel 4.9 . 53.77 |=================================================


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
A10-7850K Kernel 4.9 . 182 |===================================================


Gzip Compression
2GB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
A10-7850K Kernel 4.9 . 13.86 |=================================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
A10-7850K Kernel 4.9 . 10.51 |=================================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
A10-7850K Kernel 4.9 . 14.71 |=================================================


FFmpeg 2.8.1
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
A10-7850K Kernel 4.9 . 17.24 |=================================================


libjpeg-turbo tjbench 1.5.1
Test: Decompression Throughput
Megapixels/sec > Higher Is Better
A10-7850K Kernel 4.9 . 119.17 |================================================