The game results caught us a bit off-guard; based on what we saw from Llano and then Trinity, AMD had a clear bias towards graphics performance that lent itself to gaming. With Kabini, that seems to be lost, as Intel's HD Graphics 4000 component on the 17 W Core i3 is quite a bit faster.
On the flip side, we're hoping to see AMD's improvements to its x86 hardware materialize as more competitive performance in more general computing apps.

iTunes is single-threaded, so clock rate and IPC win this one. The 2.2 GHz Pentium B960 scores a first-place finish, followed by Intel's Core i3. AMD's A4-5000 trails by a substantial margin.

Also single-threaded, Lame yields the same outcome.

HandBrake is threaded, so the Core i3 with its Hyper-Threading technology manages to outperform the Pentium. AMD's quad-core A4-5000-based platform finishes in last place again, though the outcome isn't as severe.

Although the Intel-based chips trade places once again, one outcome that doesn't change is Kabini's inability to keep up at what we anticipate to be a competitive price point.
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- 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
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?