AMD Trinity A10 5800K APU Review

CPU by leeghoofd @ 2012-11-21

Who hasn't heard about the following phrase? The Future is Fusion ! Unless you have been living under a rock for the last years, this AMD marketing slogan was pretty much everywhere. AMD wanted to create a platform that was mainly very affordable, where a dedicated graphics card was not a must, while being power efficient, especially for the mobile market and up to the task to satisfy our multimedia, digital desires/needs. One option already existed in the form of an integrated graphic chips solutions on the motherboard. However the latter had non-conforming performance for todays standards. This all lead to the creation of the APU, Accelerated Processing Unit.  The first steps to make Fusion a reality. The FM1 socket Llano CPUs was AMD's first succesful try in this new market. As usual the competition caught up, so time for a new revision of the AMD APU. Hello world this is platform Virgo calling... Time to have a look at AMD's latest Trinity socket FM2 APU.

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First let's overclock the CPU to 4500MHz, not touching the HTT link , nor iGP frequency, just upping the black edition's multiplier.

First up, FarCry2: close to no gain, unless the 1FPS gain at the lowest tested resolution of 1024 x 768, but that's typical for FarCry2 as it scales a bit with extra CPU power. 

 

 

Does the CPU OverClock unleash some extra frames per second in Crysis2 ? Sadly not as the iGP is the limiting factor here, not more rendering power to be detected at all.

 

 

Similar outcome for Formula 1 2011 edition, no progress at all, time to move on and start to overclock the iGPU frequency with the foreseen bios multiplier.

 

 

Nothing to see here really, I wanted to skip this page, but some people still tend to believe that raw CPU MHz always results in faster gaming. Obviously not if the GPU power is limited.

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