3DMark is an essential tool used by millions of gamers, hundreds of hardware review sites and many of the world’s leading manufacturers to measure PC gaming performance.
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The Cloud Gate benchmark test in 3D Mark sets the scene very nicely. Increasing the speed of the DDR3 memory with A10-7800 brings a useful increase in the the test score from 6,537 to 6,871 and then switching to the A10-7850K and overclocking the APU further increases the test score to 7,161 and then 7,757.
That's a ten percent increase from raising the DDR3 speed from 1866MHz to 2400MHz and another ten percent from overclocking the A10-7850K using OC Genie.
On the other hand reducing the TDP to 45W drops the score to 5,288 marks which is a drop of 23 percent.
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