This next test is a single-threaded workload that sees us take a PowerPoint presentation and print out a PDF file of it.

Unable to fully utilize its four cores, the 1.5 GHz A4-5000 gets worked over pretty bad. Perhaps 3ds Max can better-demonstrate the benefits of a quad-core APU.

We thought this might have been Kabini's chance to shine, but the higher-clocked dual-core Pentium scores a first-place finish.

The Core i3's Hyper-Threading capability is more of a boon in Blender. The A4 can't catch a break, though.

The same goes for ABBYY's FineReader OCR application.

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Summary
- Temash And Kabini: AMD's Mobile Future
- Jaguar: A Low-Power x86 Core
- The First APUs With AMD's GCN Architecture, Plus Power Management
- AMD's E-Series and A-Series APUs, Along With Their Bundles
- AMD's Kabini-Based Prototype And Our Benchmarks
- Results: Synthetics
- Results: F1 2012 And The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Results: Tomb Raider And Metro 2033
- Results: Media Encoding
- Results: Adobe CS6 Suite
- Results: Productivity
- Results: Compression
- Power Consumption
- The Kabini-Based A4-5000: Mediocre Performance, But Great Efficiency
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What was the Texture Filtering (AMD) set at? If it is at quality, no wonder it is chugging. If it's at performance...Ergh.
Also, what happens when RadeonPro and it's performance tweaks are thrown in? Would setting the mip-maps to performance help at all?
What about the few optimization settings?
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_i3/Intel-Core%20i3-3217U%20Mobile%20processor.html
2nd: the gpu clocks of kabini are standard while intels are variable (favors intel, innacurate results)
3rd: kabini's gpu is probably bottlenecked by ram speed?