Earlier this year AMD introduced their Kaveri APUs and I had the chance to take a look at the A10-7850K. While I wouldn’t consider is an enthusiast part, I came out of our testing seriously impressed with the improvements AMD has made on the GPU side of things. I thought the new Kaveri APUs would be perfect for HTPCs as well as budget gaming rigs. Well today AMD is officially announcing a few new APUs that fill in a few gaps in that product line. The new APUs are the A10-7800, A8-7600, and the A6-7400K. While the architecture is the same, the new models do have a few interesting standouts. For one the A6-7400K is unlocked and has a low price to compete with the Intel G3258 Anniversary Edition. The other one that caught my eye was the A10-7800. It shares similar stats with the A10-7850K but with nearly half the power usage! Today I’m going to take a look at the A10-7800 to see if it is as exciting as the numbers imply.

Product Name: AMD A10-7800 Kaveri

Review Sample Provided by: AMD

Written by: Wes

Pictures by: Wes

 

Specifications

Model

A10-7800

A10-7700K

A10-7850K

Core Name

Kaveri

Kaveri

Kaveri

Microarchitecture

Steamroller

Steamroller

Steamroller

Socket

FM2+

FM2+

FM2+

CPU Cores

2/4

2/4

2/4

CPU Base Frequency

3500

3500

3700

Max Turbo

3900

3800

4000

TDP

45W or 65W

95W

95W

L1 Cache

192KB

64KB

192KB

64KB

192KB

64KB

L2 Cache

2 x 2 MB

2 x 2 MB

2 x 2 MB

Graphics

R7

R7

R7

GPU Cores

512

384

512

GPU Clock Speed

720MHz

720MHz

720MHz

Max DDR3 Speed

2133MHz

2133MHz

2133MHz

MSRP

$155

$135

$173

As you can see above the A10-7800 is similar to the 7850K in a lot of ways. They both have the same GPU and core count. Where they differ is the 7800 has a slightly slower CPU clock speed and lower TDP. The 7850K is also unlocked where the7800 isn’t and of course there is the nearly $20 difference in price. Otherwise you are still getting a Kaveri APU on the FM2+ socket.

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #35192 01 Aug 2014 19:29
For those of you who are thinking about building an HTPC or a SFF build the A10-7800 might fit the bill, check it out!

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