AMD A10-6800K & A10-6700 Richland APU Testing:

Office 2007 Excel Big Number Crunch: This test takes a 6.2 MB Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and performs about 28,000 sets of calculations that represent many of the most commonly used calculations in Excel. The measure of this test is the amount of time it takes to refresh the sheet.

Lower Is Better

POV-Ray 3.7: This program features a built-in benchmark that renders an image using Ray Tracing. The latest versions offer support for SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing), enabling the workload to be spread across several cores for quicker completion.

Higher Is Better

ProShow Gold: This program is used to take a collection of images and stitch them together in a slide show, using a variety of transitions and effects, to make a compelling show you can share with friends and family. The workload consists of 29 high-resolution images that are stitched into a 3 minute video file.

Lower Is Better

HandBrake 9.5: is an open source application used to trans-code multiple video formats to an h.264 output format. The test file size is 128 MB in size and 43 seconds in length.

Lower Is Better

The trend continues with a 10-15% improvement on the CPU half of the APU die.