AMD Release 3 New Kaveri APUs

[WYP]

AMD are releasing lower wattage Kaveri APUs, each of which present a much higher efficiency and a larger feature-set than previous generation Richland.

Read more about AMD's 3 New Kaveri APUs here.

 

[CalVic]

Looking interesting!

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[WYP]

Looking interesting!

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[barnsley]

Libre office will use HSA as well. that will be interesting to see what performance benefit that will bring.
Big fan of the TDPs, nice to see AMD can do energy efficiency. Come to think of it the a8 would make a decent office pc as well. The A10 is nice from a budget perspective but still wouldn't be my first choice in that area. Last time I checked a pentium and 750ti is the same price. These APUs do have some potential, just not from a enthusiast perspective :/.

 

[WYP]

IMHO it is a real shame the A8-7600 isn't unlocked. I could have been a great budget Gaming CPU if combined with dedicated graphics.

 

[barnsley]

IMHO it is a real shame the A8-7600 isn't unlocked. I could have been a great budget Gaming CPU if combined with dedicated graphics.

The whole locked thing is fine tbh, APUs can't overclock that well anyway from what I've seen on the web. My Athlon 750k did pretty well OCing so I presume its to do with the GPU bit. Man I wish I'd actually wrote a review for that chip, decent bang for buck.
Besides, as with most budget builds the motherboards aren't always that happy with OCing.

 

[Greenback]

I always wonder how long it's going to be before a separate GFX card is no longer needed for people who only want to play games at 1080p with high settings, where a gaming rig will be £200 or less. AMD seem to be moving in the right direction

 

[WYP]

The whole locked thing is fine tbh, APUs can't overclock that well anyway from what I've seen on the web. My Athlon 750k did pretty well OCing so I presume its to do with the GPU bit. Man I wish I'd actually wrote a review for that chip, decent bang for buck.
Besides, as with most budget builds the motherboards aren't always that happy with OCing.

I suppose, one thing I'd like to see is how well the dual core can do. I've seen some beastly overclocks from the 6400K in the past while.

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

I really hope that some new toys are coming for the AM socket.
New chipset new high end enthusiast grade processors.
However with the HSA on the APUs AMD will be trying to erase intel from all office oriented computers and the low budget builds

 

[barnsley]

I really hope that some new toys are coming for the AM socket.
New chipset new high end enthusiast grade processors.
However with the HSA on the APUs AMD will be trying to erase intel from all office oriented computers and the low budget builds

AM3+ is dead.

 

[RizeAllard]

The whole locked thing is fine tbh, APUs can't overclock that well anyway from what I've seen on the web. My Athlon 750k did pretty well OCing so I presume its to do with the GPU bit. Man I wish I'd actually wrote a review for that chip, decent bang for buck.
Besides, as with most budget builds the motherboards aren't always that happy with OCing.

My experience is against it. I can easily have 4.8-4.9 GHz 24/7 stable overclock on 6790K APUs with aircooling (ArcticCooling Freezer 7 Pro -CoolerMaster Hypert TX4) and minimal vcore increasing. GPU is also set to 1000MHz. So I have a good experience with them. On water it was stable on 5.1GHz as well. If i want to go over the 5.1GHz barrier i had to increase the vcore and had to play with memory timeings, ringbus speed, and so on... to get it stable. ^_^

 

[barnsley]

My experience is against it. I can easily have 4.8-4.9 GHz 24/7 stable overclock on 6790K APUs with aircooling (ArcticCooling Freezer 7 Pro -CoolerMaster Hypert TX4) and minimal vcore increasing. GPU is also set to 1000MHz. So I have a good experience with them. On water it was stable on 5.1GHz as well. If i want to go over the 5.1GHz barrier i had to increase the vcore and had to play with memory timeings, ringbus speed, and so on... to get it stable. ^_^

Maybe the one I tried OCing just was a dud then :/. All the reviews I read when they were first out weren't going above 4.4. Ah well, good to see that they can be oc'd to hell.

 

[RizeAllard]

On 6600K you can also easily get 4.5-4.6 GHz OC on them. I tried also 6400K but theres no such oc potential in it then the big brothers... Or maybe I just got a bad silicon of it. If i get a new 7850k or 7800 i will let you know how far they can go...

 

[Zoot]

It's a shame the A8-7600 wasn't out back when the A10-7850k launched. If it was, I'd certainly have stuck it into my HTPC instead of the A6-6400k I have in there at the minute. It'd be nice to have more capability to do some light gaming on it.

Although that being said, the A6 is fine for what I need it for.