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AMD A10-6800K (Richland) APU Review

Henry Butt June 13, 2013 CPU, Featured Tech Reviews

Unfortunately we had stability issues when overclocking the A10-6800K with our Biostar Hi-Fi A85W, despite updating it to the latest edition of the BIOS so we are only including stock results in this test.

While we were easily able to get the system to boot at 4.8 GHz, we couldn't achieve stability at more than 4.4 GHz.

If you wanted to upgrade from the A8 5600k how much additional performance would you get? Today we will find out.

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Test System:

AMD A10-6800K
AMD A8-5600K

Motherboard: Biostar Hi-Fi A85W
Memory: AMD Gaming Series 2133 MHz
Power Supply: Seasonic Platinum 1000W
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 8670D
Graphics Card (Dual Graphics): AMD Radeon HD 6670
CPU Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC14PE
Hard Drive: Corsair Neutron 240 GB
Monitor: Viewsonic VX2260WM
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)

Software:

PCMark 8
PCMark 7
3DMark
3DMark 11
3DMark Vantage
SiSoft Sandra 2013
Cinebench R11.5
CrystalDiskMark
Cyberlink MediaEspresso 6.7
VLC Media Player
Performance Monitor
Unigine Heaven Benchmark
Super Pi 1.5 Mod
CPUID Hardware Monitor
CPU-Z
GPU-Z
WinRAR
DiRT Showdown
Battlefield 3
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

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6 comments

  1. Alex
    June 13, 2013 at 9:02 am

    They are good value for what you get. add in a HD7870 and you also have a cheap, powerful gaming rig at 1080p

  2. Ben
    June 13, 2013 at 9:03 am

    Great for media center, no need for a discrete card.

  3. Christopher Hall-Nelson
    June 13, 2013 at 9:04 am

    This was really useful to me, I have an older A8 and wanted to sell it, and put £70 towards a new gen model. It looks to be worth the move, especially for HD gaming.

  4. Xtreme
    June 13, 2013 at 9:05 am

    AMD rule in the low end, I just wish they could get something out at £300 to kick intels ass.

  5. Adrian
    June 14, 2013 at 11:24 am

    The Gaming FPS tests have me confused. Are those the results with or without the dual graphics??? Or is it with the discrete graphics solution? I would like to see the performance with dual graphics.

  6. joe
    June 15, 2013 at 5:42 am

    is the a10-6800k good for video editing and 3d rendering also? just struggling to find a good amd processor. thank you.

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