AMD Trinity A10-5800K Review
Posted
October 2, 2012
by James Baranski (Drdeath) in CPU & Motherboards
Overview
Hardware: CPU & MotherboardsWHAT WE LIKED:
Great priced mainstream processor. On-die GPU, good graphics/video and processing performance. Decent gaming performance for the price.WHAT WE DISLIKED:
Although Piledriver has a much better instruction set, vanilla processing performance is only slightly better than Llano.BOTTOM LINE:
Great entry level APU featuring great graphics and video playback.
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Power Consumption
Power consumption was also a huge concern for AMD. Their Bulldozer cores were not very efficient but that has changed. We see that at idle, the AMD A10-5800K uses only 66 watts and under full load, only 160 watts. We would say this is pretty efficient.
Let’s wrap things up.
This is awesome that you did some benches with Dual Graphics, thank you. It’s been kind of hit and miss finding this info. I do have to ask though, was that 1920×1080 on BF3? Also, why not 1920×1080 for MW3 for consistency’s sake?
I ran a few different resolutions but seperated different tests
so..ok why new AMD APU pairs with old 6670 and not with 7770 in crossfire..its no point put old 6670 with new 5800k. if u can afford just 6670 then take cheap intel G630 and have similar results.
The reason is very simple scaleman
the apu + 6670 amd is enough to play games on medium settings without a hiccup
this is designed with budget consumers in mind and a g630 intel with same set up would do poorer then that
reasons 1 its 4 core
2 the apu is designed to pic up the slack of the 6670 amd ddr5 kind of like a booster in gaming were it lags the apu will speed up etc
I’m not sure why you weren’t able to overclock your 7660D. I’m able to on mine without changing anything.. I was actually searching of safe speeds to overclock my 7660D. So far, at I tried 1000mhz and was at 58C on average. Is that safe?
Why not test the Intel with the 6670 and the 7770 looks like you are trying to make Intel look bad lol #biased fanboys
Test conditions have to stay the EXACT same, or else the results are worthless. Would you compare different cars at different speeds and then draw conclusions at how fast they are on the quarter mile, when only one car ran that track? Testing must be consistent, regardless of which components are used, otherwise people could claim differences are due to the graphics card rather than the CPU. Surely you must see that, right?
On a side note, this isn’t Twitter, so the hashtag doesn’t really do much in the comment section. Might wanna check that before you post next time. Otherwise looks like you’re trying to make yourself look bad #wrongsite fanboy 😉
I dont think anyone would have to try to make Intel look bad when it comes to Integrated graphics. They do that well enough on their own. They do great in clock for clock cpu performance but lag behind in the gpu department. History shows this.
Why was 1333 MHz RAM used? I’ve heard that using at least 1866 MHz provides substantial improvements in performance, but all of the reviews I’ve seen with a CrossFire setup have used nothing faster than 1600 MHz. Since (according to my research) the APU uses the RAM for graphics, wouldn’t the RAM speed significantly impact graphics performance?
lol you really don’t need a dedicated graphics card with an A10.
Just get a decent A85X chipset MB, at least 8 gig DDR3 ram – 1600 Mhz should be MINIMUM for decent performance. CL 8 should be the MAX you go for. Lower CL is better ie 8-8-8 24. CAS latency (has a fairly big performance hit). Well picked RAM and MB, along with a half decent cooler open up your overclocking options a lot.
You really don’t need to push this thing hard though. It’s a good performer. If you need more graphics, a 7850 is ridiculous value for it’s price and can be heavily O/Cd. At the extreme end I’ve seen 3dMark 11 tests with just one card achieving over 10k.
Just wait it out if you don’t need it and grab an A12. Long live AMD 🙂
MY A10 5800K IS ROCKING 4.7GHZ with room AND on the gpu i overclocked it to just a little bit over 1ghz my fps is near 70 on high settings, all bios overclock this lil thing rocks
amd a10 5800k apu, asrock fm2 pro 4 wd 1 tb hd, corsair xms 2 1333 (also overclocked to 1600)
it wouldnt let me edit but a corsair h100 for my cooler
Would u mind sharing your overclock settings in your bios? i am trying very hard to get to 4.8 – 5.0 and i would like to bump up the ram as well like u got . i have same ram and cpu.