SANDRA isn’t always a benchmark that is included in hardware reviews but I believe it shouldn’t be ignored. SANDRA provides a vigorous package that tests your system in a rather large array of benchmarks. There are many aspects of benchmark that can be executed. We will be considering – CPU, memory and GPGPU tests.
In aggregate CPU operations we find that the A10-6790K is around 25% slower than the Intel Core i5-4430, however, when it comes to floating point operations, measured by the processor multi media, the Intel CPU is nearly twice as fast. AMD have nearly caught up in Multicore efficiency, however, the APU still lags significantly in memory bandwidth, the Cache bandwidth makes sense considering the APU does not have any L3 cache.
