AMD A6-3650 APU + CrossfireX Review

👤by Tony Le Bourne Comments 📅12-10-11
Game Benchmarks: AVP, Deus Ex:HR, L4D2, Shogun 2

Alien Vs. Predator
Spawned from the popular Alien and Predator franchises, Rebellion have collaborated to bring the legendary war to us through the medium of a first-person shooter. The game forces you to hunt, prey and most importantly survive in the swamp colony of Freya's prospect as a Predator, Alien or Marine. The stunning visuals add to the sense of dread and terror that we have become so accustomed to seeing with the series.

The stand-alone Alien VS Predator benchmark tool was used for testing here. All the settings were set to very high and Tessellation was applied. The average FPS was recorded at the end.

Stock performance at these settings for the HD 6530 would be very unplayable, the addition of the 6570 in CrossfireX nearly achieves acceptable frame rates with some good scaling involved too and not too far off the A8-3850 CrossfireX. Maybe with some overclocking of CPU + CPU + RAM..? (It is worth mentioning that this benchmark is not indicative of actual AVP gameplay.)



Deus Ex: Human Revolution
You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. Your job is to safeguard company secrets, but when a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job changes

Unfortunately at these settings the A6 APU cannot provide playable frames, on top of that DX:HR follows the 'other' trend we have seen, and that is CrossfireX issues with the A6-3650 and the 6570. Adam Jensen never asked for this.



co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
You’ll play as one of four new survivors armed with a wide and devastating array of classic and upgraded weapons. In addition to firearms, you’ll also get a chance to take out some aggression on infected with a variety of carnage-creating melee weapons, from chainsaws to axes and even the deadly frying pan.

Popular Survival FPS L4D2 acheives near playable frame rates maxxed out on the A8-3850, with a little OC will get you those magic numbers, again the A6-3650 and the decimated HD 6530D fall short of delivering. Left 4 Dead 2 does not support CrossfireX and prefers faster CPU clock speeds so in this scenario, the A8 wins out right.



In the darkest age of Japan, endless war leaves a country divided. It is the middle of the 16th Century in Feudal Japan. The country, once ruled by a unified government, is now split into many warring clans. Ten legendary warlords strive for supremacy as conspiracies and conflicts wither the empire. Only one will rise above all to win the heart of a nation as the new shogun...The others will die by his sword.

Epic battles of Samurai fuelled by AMD's APU, we again see good crossfire scaling, level performance on the HD 6570 and playable frame rates on the A8. Again the A6 falls below par.




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