Comprehensive platform for measuring the higher life APU

Notebook Products to our greatest advantage is its portability exceptional, users can use written everywhere, create spreadsheets, send and receive mail, and browse the web, etc., but these operations are inseparable from the use of mobile laptops help put the battery, laptop is equipped with HP 484170-001 battery will naturally become a support for various processing tasks of the mobile power source.

Mobile electronics of the current situation of development, both the mobile phone, tablet PC or laptop, with the increase in screen size, the improvement of the transformation of 3G networks and performance to join, energy increases, the battery life further development of these products has become the biggest bottleneck. Take the laptop alone is significant, while the latest high-definition movies or play software to run the game, basically do not use more than 2 hours. When the battery capacity may not have time break, if you want to get more autonomy, a laptop power-saving control of the core plays a crucial role on the face of various operations to reasonable adjustments accordingly in order to find the performance and life balance time laptop offers a long-term use of time is the best way.

Currently two major processor manufacturers Intel and AMD are made in the effort to match the capacity of endurance, which belong to the same price segment of the two platforms that are more endurance? Here, we chose the two best-selling laptop as a test platform to examine that define the life of the battery platform is more important. Taking into account the environment the user a real application, so we use reference tests and practical application of a combination of both to be presented to you. Before starting the test, the first to introduce the practice to participate in tests of the two platforms, the specific configuration as shown in the table.
Platform test hardware configuration information

Processor
APU A4-3300M dual-core
Core i3 2310M dual-core

Memory
4 GB DDR3
2 GB of DDR3

Graphics Card
Radeon HD 6470M
Nvidia GeForce GT 520M

Integrated basic display
HD 6480G Integrated single significant (DX11 Support)
Core HD 3000 graphics card (does not support DX11)

Hard Drive Capacity
640GB
500GB

Screen Size
14 inch (1366 × 768)
14 inch (1366 × 768)

Battery parameters
4090mAh/47Wh
4400mAh/48Wh

· PCMark 7 benchmark tests simulated office

First, we choose as the benchmark PCMark 7 project, the software includes seven different test areas, the total workload consists of 25 independent, processing storage, data, image and video coverage, web browsing, PC games and other applications in all aspects of daily life. With solid state drives, netbooks and tablets and other new equipment, new technologies emerge and spread, PCMark 7 is optimized specifically for them, they can be a good measure of the HP Pavilion DV4 level of overall performance.

PCMark benchmarking tool 7

In general, users in dealing with office applications rarely use the graphics, so in this part of our integrated graphics only for comparison. Before we perform the power management set to Windows 7 "high performance", while the APU platform specifications to fit the "power saving mode" and turn off lights dual graphics capabilities, and platform SNB cell, also adjusted to the "Core Graphics" mode This notebook is not only to meet the needs of our daily activities, but also for longer periods of time, both models are in continuous operation of the elements of productivity PCMark Test Suite 7 five times, then display the battery cell.

A4-3300M AMD APU and SNB Core i3 remaining capacity compared

Productivity Suite to run five times, the results of testing the ability of the platform APU is 80 minutes, while the platform for the SNB to 51 minutes to load, the APU win. From the comparison table above is easy to see, carrying A4-3300 AMD processor speed APU the SNB portable laptop Core i3 2310M battery life longer, the gap is still quite easy to prove that under the same environment operating performance APU to save some of the most remarkable. At the same time the gap also means that nearly half an hour, often out laptop users can use a more relaxed working of the UPA by hand.
Measured life - continuous video playback high definition

In addition to the application of mobile office outside users will also spare laptop to take on the task of entertainment applications, high-definition video playback which is already a large number of young users often choose a hobby. This year, with the HP Pavilion DV5 development of processor technology fusion, chip handling high definition has also been a substantial increase, we compare the two platforms in the test were single mode so you can easily make the 1080p HD video work.

Here we choose the video storm, we used to drive a video player, full HD 1080p "Transformers 2" and see the same two platforms in the case of playing time, which can get more power is left? Two before the test mode to adjust high-performance portable power, while the graphics have been the single display mode and Core graphics card, disconnect the external power source, play the video about 20 minutes, then check the staying power of two laptops, a lot of time to show remaining life of the battery and strong, take a look at the results of actual test it.

Continuous playback of HD video test
Comparison in the remaining battery time

Test Summary

With the trial over playing high-definition video streaming can be seen, although both models belong to the rising cost of entry-level, but can be smooth playback of Full HD 1080P . The battery life, Intel Core i3 2310M BNS platform as the A4-3300M platform APU a little longer, but the platform is equipped with Core i3 APU platform 4090mAh 4400mAh Li-ion Pavilion DV6 Battery as the largest number of parameters, so the general point of view, two portable battery life should be comparable.

Platform technology APU embellishment on the quality of the video image dynamic compared to normal playback

It is also worth mentioning that the quality of high-definition playback performance, high acceleration using the platform STORM • APU in the open version of the landscaping features dynamic video, you can see the comparison above taken from the optimized contrast and color film left clear that the visual experience of the HP Pavilion DV7 Battery normal video playback much better.
Life measured - game tests

Finally, the endurance test in the game, we also test the link, choose the racing game "Dust 3" Benchmark as a test project in the first two games ago, we were adjusting to the platform is unique in Crossfire mode, display mode, then enter the game, in "Dust 3" setting options for quality, the two platforms are adjusted to the same resolution, anti-aliasing capacity, and the same details of the treatment effect. Unplug the external power supply after the test program executed Benchmark.

Real life test set

Life and the game frame rate comparison table

Comparison test of video table above, and you can see, AMD A4-3300M + 6470M HD graphics platform APU double in the open exchange of fire, picture frames to surpass Nvidia 2310M GT Core i3 520M + flat platform for nearly 10%. APU crossfire on how DX11 games have better gaming performance support, and image sharpness is better than SNB Core i3 platform, and possibly the HP Pavilion DV8000 remaining battery time should be longer.

· Evaluation Summary

Integrated Office mobile, high-definition video, 3D gaming environments of application three measured results show that, with A4-3300M platform AMD APU in life that the platform Core i3 2310M BNS, better yet, the APU can not only to maintain its entertainment properties, and in terms of endurance performance is remarkable. For mobile users who often, the APU can provide more lasting protection power of the machine specifications. The need for long battery life of consumers, AMD compared to more affordable APU, offering an excellent choice.