AMD Llano A8 in Anandtech Bench?

[Doltmoopsie]

I was wanting to show a friend the performance of the new A8 CPUs. I noticed that the recently-tested CPU was not in the Anandtech CPU benchmark-comparison page yet. Does anyone know when the A-series CPUs will show up on the page?

(Also, Anandtech should start testing mobile CPUs and GPUs like notebookcheck as the desktop-enthusiast market is shrinking.)

 

[Accord99]

It shows up in the Mobile bench section.

 

[Doltmoopsie]

My mistake.

Having never seen the mobile bench before, I must say that it is hard to use due to only being able to see the notebook name in the list (would like to see CPU and GPU in listing).

 

[Accord99]

Yeah, it definitely is a lot less convenient unless the notebook name is extremely well-known.

 

[Lonyo]

Just compare an Athlon II X4 635 (or w/e) and add a couple of percent.
Also it's hard to test mobile GPUs because the platform is usually different, and specs even with a single GPU name can vary even more than desktop GPUs.

 

[piesquared]

So catalyst 11.6 have been released, I wonder when can we expect Anand to rebench with these newest drivers. Or maybe this only happens if it's intel hardware.

 

[OCGuy]

So catalyst 11.6 have been released, I wonder when can we expect Anand to rebench with these newest drivers. Or maybe this only happens if it's intel hardware.

Yea, because that's what review sites do everyday...re-bench with each driver release.

Why don't you go to a more "AMD friendly" site if you have to degrade this one everytime your high expectations aren't met by AMD?

 

[podspi]

Toms have had a few articles comparing drivers over long periods of time. I think they're useful.

 

[piesquared]

Yea, because that's what review sites do everyday...re-bench with each driver release.

Why don't you go to a more "AMD friendly" site if you have to degrade this one everytime your high expectations aren't met by AMD?

Well they don't seem to have a problem rebenching with new intel drivers, as they did in this very article, and you may recall Anand rushing over to AMD's demonstration of Brazos a while back, hand delivering new intel drivers there too (which AMD agreed to without hesitation. of course the knight in shining armor plan backfired but that's besides the point). Also since this release enables Steady Video, something consumers would care about, it would be a diservice to ommit the udpate.

 

[podspi]

It's pointless to re-bench mobile A8 at this point. Unlike the desktop CPUs, the entire platform is being benched, not just the CPU. Since Anand's mobile Llano is on a platform that will never be released, who cares? Individual laptops should filter in, and Anand can use updated drivers on those...


I do hope he re-does the desktop preview upon retail availability, however.