AMD A10-5800K Turbo Core On Linux AMD A10-5800K APU testing with a MSI A85XA-G65 (MS-7793) v1.0 and AMD Radeon HD 7660D graphics while toggling the AMD Turbo Core Technology support from the UEFI/BOS. The Benchmarking was done for a future article on Phoronix.com looking briefly at the AMD Turbo Core support/performance under Ubuntu Linux. A10-5800K - Stock: Processor: AMD A10-5800K APU @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI A85XA-G65 (MS-7793) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7660D 512MB, Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: fglrx 9.0.2, OpenGL: 4.2.11903, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 A10-5800K - No Turbo Core: Processor: AMD A10-5800K APU @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI A85XA-G65 (MS-7793) v1.0, Chipset: AMD Family 15h, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 60GB OCZ VERTEX2, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7660D 512MB, Audio: ATI R6xx HDMI, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 12.10, Kernel: 3.5.0-15-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: fglrx 9.0.2, OpenGL: 4.2.11903, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 117.29 |=========================================== A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 112.82 |========================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 7084.96 |========================================== A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 6988.29 |========================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 22.08 |============================================ A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 21.37 |=========================================== Dolfyn 0.527 Computational Fluid Dynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 40.37 |========================================== A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 42.15 |============================================ LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator 1.0 Test: Rhodopsin Protein Loop Time < Lower Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 62.45 |========================================== A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 65.60 |============================================ FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 3337.15 |========================================== A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 3103.47 |======================================= Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 19.35 |========================================== A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 20.29 |============================================ Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 10.98 |=========================================== A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 11.28 |============================================ John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 3421 |============================================= A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 3397 |============================================= TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2w Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 66.07 |============================================ A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 65.45 |============================================ VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 17.88 |============================================ A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 17.48 |=========================================== x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 80.95 |============================================ A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 79.09 |=========================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 103 |============================================== A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 98 |============================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 80 |=============================================== A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 78 |============================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 127 |============================================== A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 121 |============================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 143 |============================================== A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 136 |============================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 70 |=============================================== A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 67 |============================================= Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 671.14 |=========================================== A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 630.15 |======================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 164.33 |========================================= A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 170.47 |=========================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 49.09 |============================================ A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 49.33 |============================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 17.52 |========================================== A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 18.53 |============================================ Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 54 |============================================= A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 56 |=============================================== Opus Codec Encoding 1.0.1 WAV, Opus Encode, Opus Decode Seconds < Lower Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 12.98 |========================================== A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 13.66 |============================================ FFmpeg 1.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 20.84 |========================================== A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 21.91 |============================================ Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Bibd Seconds < Lower Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 161.01 |======================================== A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 172.38 |=========================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Graceful Seconds < Lower Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 89.57 |========================================= A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 95.17 |============================================ Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 194.61 |========================================= A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 203.76 |=========================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Quasigroup Seconds < Lower Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 190.58 |========================================= A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 200.48 |=========================================== Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 520.09 |========================================= A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 542.78 |=========================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 89.60 |============================================ A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 85.33 |========================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better A10-5800K - Stock ......... 21117.31 |========================================= A10-5800K - No Turbo Core . 19944.64 |=======================================