AMD Athlon X4 880K Processor Review & Overclocking to 4.5 GHz

By Steven Kean

General Performance Testing

General Performance Testing will consist of using several benchmarks that should provide a good glimpse at the AMD 880K overall performance. These benchmarks will provide a good idea of what it can do for the average home user.

SiSoftware Sandra CPU Arithmetic Benchmark

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AMD Athlon X4 880K SiSoftware Sandra Processor Arithmetic

SiSoftware Sandra Multi-Media

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AMD Athlon X4 880K SiSoftware Sandra Multi-Media

Cinebench R15

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AMD Athlon X4 880K Cinebench R15

PCMark 8 Advanced Home Overall Score

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AMD Athlon X4 880K PCMark 8 Home Advanced

CPUz Bench

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AMD Athlon X4 880K CPUz Bench

Handbrake

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AMD Athlon X4 880K Handbrake 10.5 Encoding

Legit Reviews Benchmark Results: Taking a look at the benchmarks, we can start to see a trend. In tests where a single core is tested, the cheap Intel G4400 has a slight advantage over the AMD 880K. However, most applications are quickly becoming multi-core/multi-threaded capable, which is where we start to see the AMD 880K take the lead; for a low cost solution, it is starting to show promise.