AMD A10-5800K Trinity Desktop APU w/ Socket FM2 Performance Preview

Aliens Vs. Predator

Aliens vs Predator is an entirely new title for PC and high-definition consoles from acclaimed British developer Rebellion, the team behind the 1999 original PC gaming classic. Bringing the most intense war between two of science-fictions most popular characters FPS fans, AvP delivers three outstanding single player campaigns and provides untold hours of unique 3-way multiplayer gaming. Experience distinctly new and thrilling first person gameplay as you survive, hunt and prey in the deadly jungles and swamps surrounding the damned colony of Freyas Prospect. Aliens vs Predator D3D11 Benchmark v1.03 is a standalone benchmark test based upon Rebellion’s 2010 inter-species shooter Aliens vs. Predator. The test shows xenomorph-tastic scenes using heavy tessellation among other DX11 features. The benchmarks independent GUI was used for testing shown below.

Running the benchmark on the XFX Radeon HD 6950 we cranked up all the image quality settings in the benchmark to the highest level possible, so we were running 4x AA and 16x AF with SSAO enabled at both 1920×1080 and 1280×1024.

Benchmark Results: The AMD A10-5800K was significantly faster than the first generation of AMD APU’s. At a resolution of 1280×1024 the A10-5800K was able to average 19.85 frames per second, at 1920×1080 the A10-5800K was able to average 14.1 frames per second. The AMD A8-3870K was only able to average 15.7 frames per second at 1280×1024 which is ~21% slower. At 1920×1080 the A8-3870K averaged only 11.7 frames per second which is 17% slower than the A10-5800K APU.