We're comparing AMD's new Athlon 5350 to Intel's Celeron J1900. It's a great match-up because it gives us our first opportunity to test Intel's Bay Trail-D platform against AM1 using closely-matched clock rates (the Celeron is running at a 2 GHz base frequency that goes as high as 2.41 GHz, while the Athlon operates at 2.05 GHz).
While Intel's most powerful Bay Trail-D-compatible option is the Pentium J2900, the only difference between that chip and our Celeron J1900 is clock rate. The Pentium's base frequency is 410 MHz higher, while its peak Turbo Boost state allows for 250 MHz more. Additionally, the HD Graphics engine is up to 42 MHz faster on the Pentium.
| AM1 System | BGA 1170 System | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motherboard | Gigabyte AM1M-S2H, AM1 | ASRock Q1900B-ITX, BGA 1170 | ||
| Processor | AMD Athlon 5350, quad-core, 2.02 GHz | Intel Celeron J1900, quad-core, 2.0/2.42 GHz | ||
| Memory | DDR3-1666, 9-9-9-24 | DDR3-1333, 9-9-9-24 | ||
| Graphics | Radeon R3 Graphics, 600 MHz, AMD Catalyst 14.8 beta 8 | Intel HD Graphics, 688-854 MHz clock range, Graphics Driver 10.18.10.3366 | ||
| System Drive | Western Digital Black, 500 GB | |||
| Power Supply | XFX PRO850W, 850 W, 80 PLUS-certified | |||
And here are the benchmark details:
| Benchmark Configuration | |
|---|---|
| 3D Games | |
| Dota 2 | 60-Second Fraps, botmatch |
| Grid 2 | Direct X 11, Built-in Benchmark |
| Audio/Video Encoding | |
| HandBrake CLI | Version: 0.98, Video: Video from Canon EOS 7D (1920x1080, 25 frames) 1 Minutes 22 Seconds, Audio: PCM-S16, 48,000 Hz, Two-Channel, to Video: AVC1 Audio: AAC (High Profile) |
| iTunes | Version 10.4.1.10 x64: Audio CD (Terminator II SE), 53 minutes, default AAC format |
| LAME MP3 | Version 3.98.3: Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 53 min, convert WAV to MP3 audio format, Command: -b 160 --nores (160 Kb/s) |
| TotalCode Studio 2.5 | Version: 2.5.0.10677, MPEG-2 to H.264, MainConcept H.264/AVC Codec, 28 sec HDTV 1920x1080 (MPEG-2), Audio: MPEG-2 (44.1 kHz, Two-Channel, 16-Bit, 224 Kb/s) Codec: H.264 Pro, Mode: PAL 50i (25 FPS), Profile: H.264 BD HDMV |
| Productivity | |
| ABBYY FineReader | Version 10.0.102.82: Read PDF save to Doc, Source: Political Economy (J. Broadhurst 1842) 111 Pages |
| Adobe Photoshop CC | Version 13 x64: Filter 15.7 MB TIF Image: Radial Blur, Shape Blur, Median, Polar Coordinates |
| 7-Zip | Version 9.28, LZMA2, Syntax "a -t7z -r -m0=LZMA2 -mx=5" Benchmark: THG-Workload-2012 |
| WinRAR | Version 5.1, RAR, Syntax "winrar a -r -m3" Benchmark: THG-Workload-2012 |
| WinZip | Version 17.0 Pro, Best Method, ZIPX Benchmark: THG-Workload-2012 |
| Synthetic Benchmarks and Settings | |
| 3DMark 2013 | Version: 1.0.1, Cloud Gate test |
| PCMark 8 | Version: 1.0.4, Home test, Conventional and OpenCL Accelerated |
| SiSoftware Sandra 2013 | Version: 2013 SP5c-1872, CPU Test = CPU Arithmetic, GPGPU Cryptography |
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Summary
- The AM1 Platform: Kabini Surfaces On The Desktop
- One Bay Trail-D And Two AM1 Motherboards
- Test Systems And Benchmarks
- Synthetic Benchmarks
- Media Encoding Benchmarks
- Productivity Benchmarks
- File Compression Benchmarks
- Game Benchmarks
- Power And Temperature
- AMD's AM1 Platform Is A Winner, But Who Is Playing The Game?
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It's just convenience and cost efficiency, really, on the one hand, you've got 1 motherboard, CPU, tower, PSU, OS and IP adress for remote control and 8 HDDs and on the other, you've still got 8 HDDS, but 2 of everything else. Power consumption wouldn't make THAT much of a difference, since storage servers mostly idle, but the noise and size do take their toll.
It's just convenience and cost efficiency, really, on the one hand, you've got 1 motherboard, CPU, tower, PSU, OS and IP adress for remote control and 8 HDDs and on the other, you've still got 8 HDDS, but 2 of everything else. Power consumption wouldn't make THAT much of a difference, since storage servers mostly idle, but the noise and size do take their toll.
I think the 1920x1080 and 1600x900 graph for Dota 2 are the wrong way round? And it would be good to also have had a graph for its performance with dedicated GPU.
I think the problem is the PSU. Using 850W XFX is total overkill and even being certified as gold class, it has high efficiency at 20% load, which is 170 W. Therefore the PSU is used in non-efficient area and can simply add 15 - 20 W extra to the final power consumption.
Next time maybe borrow PicoPSU and some efficient brick.