But what does it mean?

[john.weland]

So I am looking to get a little more out of my rig and I had O.C.d my setup (you can see my setup in my sig). I had pushed my DDR3 1333 ram to 1600 using the UEFI BIOS and selecting a higher memory profile. I pushed my APU from the stock 3.0 to 3.5 simply by adjusting the multiplier no voltage or clock changes. (I did hit  3.7 but it crashed on me as soon and I put some load to it).

 

Honestly It seems to run smoother at the stock 3.0GHz since I rolled it back. I ran Sandra but I have no idea what the results mean. I'm pretty new to this sort of thing. 

 

 

 

 

SiSoftware Sandra

 

Display

Connection : Local Computer

 

Processor Arithmetic

Analysing...

Aggregated Score : 33.49GOPS

Result ID : AMD A8-3870 APU with Radeon HD Graphics (4C 3GHz, 655MHz IMC, 1MB L2)

Speed : 3000MHz

Capacity : 4Unit(s)

Power : 109.20W

Finished Successfully : Yes

 

Processor Multi-Media

Analysing...

Aggregated Score : 50.85MPix/s

Result ID : AMD A8-3870 APU with Radeon HD Graphics (4C 3GHz, 655MHz IMC, 1MB L2)

Speed : 3000MHz

Capacity : 4Unit(s)

Power : 109.20W

Finished Successfully : Yes

 

Cryptography

Analysing...

Aggregated Score : 0.486GB/s

Result ID : AMD A8-3870 APU with Radeon HD Graphics (4C 3GHz, 655MHz IMC, 1MB L2)

Speed : 3000MHz

Capacity : 4Unit(s)

Power : 109.20W

Finished Successfully : Yes

 

Processor Financial Analysis

Analysing...

Aggregated Score : 8.04kOPT/s

Result ID : AMD A8-3870 APU with Radeon HD Graphics (4C 3GHz, 655MHz IMC, 1MB L2)

Speed : 3000MHz

Capacity : 4Unit(s)

Power : 109.20W

Finished Successfully : Yes

 

Processor Scientific Analysis

Analysing...

Aggregated Score : 4.74GFLOPS

Result ID : AMD A8-3870 APU with Radeon HD Graphics (4C 3GHz, 655MHz IMC, 1MB L2)

Speed : 3000MHz

Capacity : 4Unit(s)

Power : 109.20W

Finished Successfully : Yes

 

.NET Arithmetic

Analysing...

Aggregated Score : 15.17GOPS

Result ID : AMD A8-3870 APU with Radeon HD Graphics (4C 3GHz, 655MHz IMC, 1MB L2)

Speed : 3000MHz

Capacity : 4Unit(s)

Power : 109.20W

Finished Successfully : Yes

 

Memory Bandwidth

Analysing...

Aggregated Score : 11.079GB/s

Result ID : AMD F12 (Llano) APU Root Port; 2x 4GB AMD AE34G1339U2 DIMM DDR3 (1.33GHz 128-bit) PC3-10700 (9-9-9-24 4-33-10-5)

Speed : 1334MHz

Capacity : 8192MB

Power : 21.84W

Finished Successfully : Yes

 

Cache & Memory Latency

Analysing...

Aggregated Score : 71.7ns

Result ID : AMD F12 (Llano) APU Root Port; 2x 4GB AMD AE34G1339U2 DIMM DDR3 (1.33GHz 128-bit) PC3-10700 (9-9-9-24 4-33-10-5)

Speed : 1334MHz

Capacity : 8192MB

Power : 21.84W

Finished Successfully : Yes

 

File System Bandwidth

Analysing...

Aggregated Score : 111.865MB/s

Result ID : AMD 2+0 Stripe/RAID0 (1000GB, RAID, SCSI-4) (NTFS, 4kB)

Capacity : 1000.00GB

Finished Successfully : Yes

 

File System I/O

Analysing...

Aggregated Score : 657.5IOPS

Result ID : AMD 2+0 Stripe/RAID0 (1000GB, RAID, SCSI-4) (NTFS, 4kB)

Speed : 2560Mbps

Capacity : 1000000MB

Finished Successfully : Yes

 

GP (GPU/CPU/APU) Processing

Analysing...

Aggregated Score : 277.85MPix/s

Result ID : AMD Radeon HD 6550D; AMD Radeon HD 6670 (880SP 11C 800MHz, 2GB DDR3 DDR5 1.33GHz 128-bit, Integrated Graphics) (OpenCL)

Speed : 800MHz

Capacity : 11Unit(s)

Power : 66.00W

Finished Successfully : Yes

 

GP (GPU/CPU/APU) Financial Analysis

Analysing...

Aggregated Score : 140.53kOPT/s

Result ID : AMD Radeon HD 6550D; AMD Radeon HD 6670 (880SP 11C 800MHz, 2GB DDR3 DDR5 1.33GHz 128-bit, Integrated Graphics) (OpenCL)

Speed : 800MHz

Capacity : 11Unit(s)

Power : 66.00W

Finished Successfully : Yes

 

GP (GPU/CPU/APU) Scientific Analysis

Analysing...

Aggregated Score : 55.01GFLOPS

Result ID : AMD Radeon HD 6550D; AMD Radeon HD 6670 (880SP 11C 800MHz, 2GB DDR3 DDR5 1.33GHz 128-bit, Integrated Graphics) (OpenCL)

Speed : 800MHz

Capacity : 11Unit(s)

Power : 66.00W

Finished Successfully : Yes

 

GP (GPU/CPU/APU) Bandwidth

Analysing...

Aggregated Score : 17.439GB/s

Result ID : AMD Radeon HD 6550D; AMD Radeon HD 6670 (880SP 11C 800MHz, 2GB DDR3 DDR5 1.33GHz 128-bit, Integrated Graphics) (OpenCL)

Speed : 1334MHz

Capacity : 2048MB

Power : 66.00W

Finished Successfully : Yes

 

Overall Score

Aggregated Score : 4.96kPT

Results Interpretation : Higher Scores mean Better Performance.

Decimal Numeral System (base 10) : 1GPT = 1000MPT, 1MPT = 1000kPT, 1kPT = 1000PT, etc.

Result ID : ASUS F1A75-M PRO/CSM (AMD A8-3870 APU with Radeon HD Graphics; AMD F12 APU Root Port; 2x 4GB AMD AE34G1339U2 DIMM DDR3 PC3-10; AMD 2+0 Stripe/RAID0; AMD Radeon HD 6550D; AMD Radeon HD 6670)

Finished Successfully : Yes

 

[john.weland]

I also ran the PCMARK 8 demo as well as 3DMARK

 

PC Mark 8

http://www.3dmark.com/pcm8hm3/94815

http://www.3dmark.com/pcm8hm3/94862Accelerated** <-- after stopping a few background processes (Chrome, Chrome and more Chrome)

 

3D Mark FireStrike

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4426215

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4426559<-- after enabling AMD overdrive on my GFX card.

 

3D Mark Skydiver 

http://www.3dmark.com/sd/2914143

http://www.3dmark.com/sd/2914269<-- after enabling AMD overdrive on my GFX card.

 

3D Mark Cloud Gate

http://www.3dmark.com/cg/2636145

http://www.3dmark.com/cg/2636245<-- after enabling AMD overdrive on my GFX card.

 

3D Mark Ice Storm

http://www.3dmark.com/is/2830898

http://www.3dmark.com/is/2830986 <--after enabling AMD overdrive on my GFX card.

 

 

It seems enabling AMD overdrive to auto boost my GFX card under load actually lowered my score. 

 

 

 

 

[edit]

 

I got a Radeon 7870 from my cousin and my scores for 3D Mark went drasticly up. 

 

Firestrike from 1164 to 4857

Skydiver from 3917 to 12019

Cloud Gate from 6810 to 10896

IceStorm from 60120 to 67701