Reviews - AMD A10-7850K (28nm Kaveri)

[Willzzz]

I do agree, that does seem sloppy.
Although it is possible that Scan changed prices while the review was being written, even so you'd hope they'd give it a read through before publishing it.

[Tarinder]

Short answer, yes.

[Tarinder]

Prices changed when one page was written to another - different days. They should be consistent now, scaryjim.

[robkewley]

What cooling was used to test the overclock?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Short answer, yes.

Yes to which question??

[bert7]

Get the bit out of your head that you need i5 or i7 cpu performance, for 95% of us, this APU will do fine, but in graphics most of us need the best we can get, as a £125 part 7850k outperforms i5 and i7 big time, now put a 290x into the motherboard with Mantle, "bingo" top end (£1500 +) Graphics, more than enough CPU performance, nothing comes close for your money (£825) figure based on APU 7850k, memory corsair dual 2400, motherboard gigabyte x88, 290x GPU base unit, and windows 8.1 you need for all key feature to be enabled. sorted.

[DanceswithUnix]

Maybe. IGP in the 7850k lays a beat-down on a R7 240, though.

But if you get:

£60 X4 760K http://www.scan.co.uk/products/amd-a...he-100w-retail

that leaves you £75 for a graphics card, or for another fiver that would get you a 7770

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-a...hdmi-plusfree-

or a GTX650.

[HalloweenJack]

you cannot buy and i5 with comparable IGP and plug and play , for that you need to spend another £75 for an R7 240.... that money gets your some 2400 DDR3 AND 1/2 towards an FM2+ board.


so you have your i5 and gfx , I`ll have a working pc that's as good in 99% of the real world activities.

[Tarinder]

Yes to which question??

Gigabyte A88X mini-ITX -that one.

[scaryjim]

I think its very valid to remember that the vast majority of people don't need even as much CPU power as the A10-7850k offers. Most of my computing is done on a Trinity laptop, and before that I used to be quite happy with a 1.3GHz Core 2 laptop. Absolute CPU performance is kind of irrelevant at this end of the market. Of course, Kaveri is strongly targeted at laptop TDPs, and that's where I expect it to make real volume, if AMD can get the design wins in place to get it into the market.

The real comparison isn't A10 7850k v i5 anything - it's A10 7850k v i3 + £35 discrete graphics v Athlon X4 + £65 discrete graphics. If you want out and out performance, there's only one winner there really, and it's not the i3 combination That said, A10 7850k v A10 7850k with R7 250 would be an interesting comparison - is the IGP better than a £60 graphics card or not?

[herulach]

I think its very valid to remember that the vast majority of people don't need even as much CPU power as the A10-7850k offers. Most of my computing is done on a Trinity laptop, and before that I used to be quite happy with a 1.3GHz Core 2 laptop. Absolute CPU performance is kind of irrelevant at this end of the market. Of course, Kaveri is strongly targeted at laptop TDPs, and that's where I expect it to make real volume, if AMD can get the design wins in place to get it into the market.

The real comparison isn't A10 7850k v i5 anything - it's A10 7850k v i3 + £35 discrete graphics v Athlon X4 + £65 discrete graphics. If you want out and out performance, there's only one winner there really, and it's not the i3 combination That said, A10 7850k v A10 7850k with R7 250 would be an interesting comparison - is the IGP better than a £60 graphics card or not?

In theory (and its only in theory) 7850k+ R7250 should see you knocking on R7 260 performance (stuttering notwithstanding).
Crossfire with the mobile radeon parts gets more and more interesting with each APU revision, and should deliver performance/watt much better than an intel/nvidia combination.

[fadsarmy]

Why is 4670K a cpu and not APU? It also has built-in gpu.

[scaryjim]

Why is 4670K a cpu and not APU? It also has built-in gpu.

Long story short, AMD "invented" the term APU, and Intel don't use it. But in practical terms you are right - all Intel's GPU-containing CPUs could be called APUs. It's just a marketing thing really.

[boryssts]

Hi every one, I find quiet interesting news at other site with Kaveri Flagship A10-7850k in Dual Graphics mode along with the Frame Pacing Fix. If this is true you can now build quiet good PC for low budget for about £350 pounds. It would be nice if Hexus people could look in to it and test it with the GDDR5 memory graphic card , if the benchmark results match, I think AMD has a good fighting chance with i3 and i5 processors in budget PC. Hexus employees could you run some benchmarks for us ? It would be very much appreciated.

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