AMD Kaveri APU A10-7850k Vs Intel i5-4570R Intel Iris Pro Graphics

AMD Kaveri APU A10-7850k Vs Intel i5-4570R Intel Iris Pro Graphics – The Ultimate Showdown

As Promised Earlier, I have some very interesting benches for you, directly from our Chinese source 4gamer.net. These benchmarks pit the Kaveri APU A10-7850k (With Mantle where it is Applicable) against the Intel i5-4570R Iris Pro Graphics in the ultimate test of all in one graphical supremacy.

Kaveri APU Vs Intel Iris Pro Graphics Battle Royale – The All-In-One Processor Benchmarks

Let me begin by giving some preliminaries. The Intel system is basically the Gigabyte NUC (Next Unit of Computing), more precisely the ‘GB-BXi5-4570R’. Its specs are as follows:

Core i5 4570R @ 3.2Ghz
8GB DDR3 SDRAM
Iris Pro Graphics 5200 @1150Mhz
GT3e @ 22nm Fab

On the other side of the ring we have the AMD flagship Kaveri APU the A10-7850K. Its test rig specs are as follows:

A10-7850k @4.0Ghz
8GB DDR3 SDRAM
Radeon R7 Graphics @ 720 Mhz
Kaveri @ 28nm Fab
Catalyst 14.1 Beta 1.6

Now let the benchmarks commence.

This round is of the synthetic benchmarks. The Intel Iris Pro Graphics solution leads in the first benchmark which is Cloud Gate (DX10) in both the Graphics and Physics Score. While in 3dMark Firestrike the Kaveri APU leads the Graphics Department while staying behind its counterpart in Physics.

AMD Kaveri APU A10-7850k Battlefield 4 Benchmark

AMD Kaveri APU A10-7850k Crysis 3 Benchmark

The first organic benchmark is of Battlefield 4 and this is where the Kaveri APU creams the Intel Iris Pro Graphics by a respectable margin. However the next game, Crysis 3, is very CPU-Intensive and gives the edge back to the Intel Iris Pro Solution. We see mixed results in Bioshock Infinite and Skyrim benchmarks with the Kaveri and Iris Pro Graphics performing about the same over all. Finally we have a win for the Iris Pro Graphics 5200 in FFXIV and a win for Kaveri in Grid 2. And Finally, Performance Per Watt.

AMD Kaveri APU A10-7850k Iris Pro Graphics Performance Per Watt

In here we can see a clear win for the Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200 Solution. The minima and maxima are as follows: 18-85 Watts for Intel and 43-131 Watts for AMD.