Benchmarks: Core
The FX-7600P's maximum core speed is limited to 3.6GHz, making it 10 per cent slower than the desktop A10-7850K. The single-threaded PiFast benchmark showcases this difference in peak clocks, but what's interesting is the gain over last-generation Richland. FX-7600P, a 35W mobile part, has the beating of the desktop A8-6500T by almost 15 per cent. A healthy improvement, though AMD can't touch Intel in terms of raw throughput: the 15W Core i5-4250U is a long way ahead.
But AMD's argument is that single-threaded workloads are yesterday's news and today's software is taking better advantage of multi-threaded hardware. The all-core Cinebench test puts the the FX-7600P's to work and returns a solid score of 232. Not bad going, though it's only a hair faster than Intel's low-voltage Core i5-4250U.
The right workload can showcase Kaveri's capabilities. wPrime pushes all cores and the efficiency of the FX-7600P's Steamroller CPU is evident: the mobile part of this generation is almost on par with last year's desktop range-topper, the 100W A10-6800K.
