Over the past few years AMD has invested most of their efforts into their APU line. This has paid off for them in the way of performance improvements every launch and even more importantly this focus helped them score all three of this generations gaming consoles. Considering how many of the PC games that we play today are ports from those consoles AMD is in a great position to benefit from all of the fine tuning done on their console hardware. They recently introduced their Kaveri APUs and after spending some time making changes to our CPU test suite and retesting some of the competition I finally have the chance to sit down and talk about how their latest APU performs both from a compute side of things as well as the performance of the integrated graphics processor.
Product Name: AMD A10-7850K Kaveri
Review Sample Provided by: AMD
Written by: Wes
Pictures by: Wes
Specifications |
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Model |
A10-6700K |
A10-6800K |
A10-7700K |
A10-7850K |
Core Name |
Richland |
Richland |
Kaveri |
Kaveri |
Microarchitecture |
Piledriver |
Piledriver |
Steamroller |
Steamroller |
Socket |
FM2 |
FM2 |
FM2+ |
FM2+ |
CPU Cores |
2/4 |
2/4 |
2/4 |
2/4 |
CPU Base Frequency |
3700 |
4100 |
3500 |
3700 |
Max Turbo |
4300 |
4400 |
3800 |
4000 |
TDP |
65W |
100W |
95W |
95W |
L1 Cache |
128KB I$ 64KB D$ |
128KB I$ 64KB D$ |
192KB I$ 64KB D$ |
192KB I$ 64KB D$ |
L2 Cache |
2 x 2 MB |
2 x 2 MB |
2 x 2 MB |
2 x 2 MB |
Graphics |
HD 8670D |
HD 8670D |
R7 |
R7 |
GPU Cores |
384 |
384 |
384 |
512 |
GPU Clock Speed |
844 |
844 |
720 |
720 |
Max DDR3 Speed |
1866 |
2133 |
2133 |
2133 |