Why I hate PC mark 8.
Non-linear performance increases. Not only does the A6-5200 have twice the number of cores but it runs at twice the frequency as the E1-2100. It has four times the theoretical performance but its score is not even twice as high. The a6-5200 is 33% faster than the a4-5000 but its pcmark 8 score is only 13% higher.
Its also too much of a system benchmark which while as a good indicator of system performance (debatable if openCL is even relevant for these systems) is too prone to flukes (look at IVB and its ridiculous scores because of the change in GPU). For instance
I'm not sure what this means for beema and mullins.
The systems are using different drivers (You previously posted this and the beema platform is using an 'unreleased' driver). This is definitely going to mess up pcmark 8 depending on OpenCL acceleration.
BTW can anyone find the E1-2100 with
8230?
http://products.amd.com/pages/NotebookAPUDetail.aspx?id=70
AMD lists it as having the 8210.
Those look like SOC power measurements. If they are using their 'larne' reference platform the SSD + RAM is going to use more than those e-reader numbers. Though for instance those 1080p playback numbers look really high.
Anyway this looks good. There is a lot of room for improvement in kabini. I highly doubt though that these chips will be able to touch baytrail in terms of efficiency simply because of intels process node advantage. Kabini barely competes with IVB/HW in terms of perf/W (comparing to higher binned chips not bottom of the barrel celerons/pentiums).
My laptop with a 3630qm uses ~60-64 watts running cinebench R15 (540-560 score). The 5350 is around 160-170 points (30% the score) while using more than 30% more power. (Idle is about 23 W for my laptop-This includes the screen on min brightness for both measurments).
Even if you look at the high clocked 4770k you will notice it performs ~4x better in CB 11.5 while using around 4x the power (no DGPU). Its the much higher HW/IVB platform power that kills efficiency, not CPU efficiency.
There is a lot of low hanging fruit with kabini. I expect a significant drop in power consumption.