AMD APUs Get Better Proformance in Windows 8.1

The_Trutherizer · Oct 22, 2013

Love to AMD - This is a very good result. However these are undoubtedly scores in the absence of discrete graphics cards. AMD was already kicking ass in that realm.

What would be of interest is how do these fare in discrete graphic tests. That is more my realm.

cyrusfox · Oct 22, 2013

I definitely notice a performance boost on my kabini a6-1450. I still disliked Windows 8/metro/touch being forced on me. but the performance is so much snappier than on Windows 7. Good job Microsoft and thank you amd for finally getting it together with developers to make sure your chips are already optimized like Intel.

hannibal · Oct 22, 2013

Actually the increase is about 3.5%! Look the picture and find out that the 100% is with win8 and old drivers. Win8 and new drivers is about 6.5% better and win8.1 with new drivers 10%... When comparing with same drivers the difference is 3.5%. Not bad increase actually, because you get it free, just like with driver uppgrades. It allso shown that operation system are not originally very well optimized to AMD hardware, but that is a completely another issue.
Summasummarum 3.5% more speed with win8.1 compared to win8.

somebodyspecial · Oct 22, 2013

These drivers are about 10% faster than older ones...Not some miracle driver. Mantle is dead, and G-sync will be everywhere embraced by everyone. Buy AMD if you'd like but it's the worst road going forward of the two tech wise. I suppose since most hate 8.1 at least it will get AMD a few customers since I'm sure NV doesn't care about win8 (or 8.1). Both are useless to most users and just slow down the REAL users that are attempting actual work and have to get crap done.

jardows · Oct 22, 2013

This shows what software optimization can do to hardware. Unfortunately, all the gains are shown in synthetic benchmarks, which will take advantage of the multiple cores offered by the AMD processors. While more applications and games are being optimized for multiple cores, most still do not scale well across the cores, and the single-threaded real-world performance difference is heavily slanted towards Intel products. Maybe with AMD processors driving the latest consoles, we'll see more games and programs optimized for the AMD architecture, giving us a more competitive landscape.

_zxzxzx_ · Oct 22, 2013

Good work AMD! A step in the right direction which I wish happened earlier

somebodyspecial · Oct 23, 2013

hannibal :

Actually they are saying win8 is the baseline and the others are a bit faster. It's not saying anything is 100% faster than another thing. This is akin to marking a Radeon 5850 as 100%, and saying a 5870 is 110%. Or like they did with the Intel chip in the graph. It's 100% baseline. The rest are a percent faster than that baseline. So in firestrike it's 46% faster than i5-4670k. Not 146 like the article seems to suggest here. TomFOOLery.

But yea, a few percent at best here as they upped a driver rev 1 time on win8 and another time for 8.1, no big deal. This is normal for all cards.

Jimd0586 · Oct 24, 2013

My laptop is running an A8-5550m and I can tell you there has been no increase. In fact, things are running more slowly now that I have upgraded to 8.1.

acdoob · Nov 14, 2013