AMD A10 5800K Trinity APU preview

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/27/2012 05:44 AM | source: | 18 comment(s)

In this preview we talk about what AMD is about to release with the AMD A10 5800K APU processor. Based on Trinity APU architecture and building on the strengths of both the Llano and Bulldozer design, the 2012 AMD A-Series platform has been updated to meet and exceed the increasing demands of today’s consumers. In this article we introduce you to the 2012 AMD A-Series platform. More CPU performance, and a much faster integrated graphics unit. Have a peek at the preview, with a review to follow next week on Monday. So this is a very limited preview focusing more on the technology rather then the performance, it's what AMD allows us to do and not so much what we want to show you as the entire article is already ready. Please stay tuned for the final article.

Read the Guru3D preview right here.

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thatguy91
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#4419050 Posted on: 09/27/2012 07:55 AM

One of the pages is incorrectly labelled:
The A75 chipset - Socket FM2 - APU SKU overview

Hilbert Hagedoorn
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#4419062 Posted on: 09/27/2012 08:23 AM

Yeah I noticed that, already fixed

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#4419097 Posted on: 09/27/2012 09:13 AM

Thank you for this preview.

Unfortunately, it appears my 3.5-year old i7 920 offers more muscle, which is somehow disappointing. AMD really has to do something or just focus on slower CPUs.

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#4419134 Posted on: 09/27/2012 10:37 AM

Power consumption seems kinda high but that IGP performance is top notch. I sense an itx build coming along

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#4419338 Posted on: 09/27/2012 04:01 PM

its a crap... the ipc is still to low and the clocks have to compensate with the drawback of power consumption... its game over for amd this time, only the gpu department of amd will survive if nvidia lets them because if an 7970 with 4.3b transistors runs for its money with the supposed to be mid-range 680 with 3.4b transistors i dont want to think about an equal specked nvidia counter-part.

this is an indication that the piledriver fx8350 will only compete at best with old school sandy and still lagging in most cases behind :bang:

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#4419372 Posted on: 09/27/2012 05:07 PM

I doubt it will compete with sb, they still have to beat x58 yet and p2

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#4419450 Posted on: 09/27/2012 07:23 PM

Thank you for this preview.

Unfortunately, it appears my 3.5-year old i7 920 offers more muscle, which is somehow disappointing. AMD really has to do something or just focus on slower CPUs.

This isn't designed as top end performance (like your i7 was) it offers CPU/GPU for less than $140 (plus mobos pretty cheap as well). Your comment is like saying the new Hybrid is slower than your old Corvette.

Power consumption is a little high, (20 watts higher than Llano) on load, but will have to wait and see how the CPU performance works next week.

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#4419453 Posted on: 09/27/2012 07:33 PM

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#4419468 Posted on: 09/27/2012 08:00 PM

Hmm... Hmm... I'm looking to upgrade our AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750 Black Edition based HTPC soon. Maybe this would be a good option?

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#4419479 Posted on: 09/27/2012 08:26 PM

Hmm... Hmm... I'm looking to upgrade our AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750 Black Edition based HTPC soon. Maybe this would be a good option?

Probably, the Mobo has lots of goodies and the temps seem to be good. The only issue may be slightly higher load power consumption but I doubt a HTPC is going to stress it that much and will be in idle most of the (which it does do well at).

Edit, here is a look at the HTPC qualities of the Trinity Desktop, power actually looks pretty good. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6335/amds-trinity-an-htpc-perspective

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#4419543 Posted on: 09/27/2012 10:42 PM

Thank you for this preview.

Unfortunately, it appears my 3.5-year old i7 920 offers more muscle, which is somehow disappointing. AMD really has to do something or just focus on slower CPUs.

Since when is a(n) entry level/budget processor supposed to outperform a high-end processor? By that line of thinking, an IB based Pentium should outperform your i7-920....which we both know won't happen for at least several more generations....

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#4419617 Posted on: 09/28/2012 02:31 AM

You could buy a i7 920 cpu used right now cheaper and stomp this cpu amd has turned into a joke

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#4419618 Posted on: 09/28/2012 02:36 AM

By itself not a massive GPU change opposed to the previous generation which had 400 shader cores however the new AMD GCN graphics architecture is applied and offers a significant leap in performance for integrated graphics alright. Processor wise Trinity is based on Piledriver cores, basically the new 2nd revision of AMD's Bulldozers cores which we all know from AMD's FX series processors.

That is incorrect.
Trinity has Cayman VLIW-4 SPUs.

Well AMD made the transition towards radeon 6000 architecure, and that's GCN (Graphics Core Next or better known as the VLI4) architecture. Per core that means more efficiency, but also tesselation performance will have gone up a notch or two.

GCN is a SIMD based architecture and wasn't present in the HD 6000 series.

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#4419646 Posted on: 09/28/2012 04:39 AM

You could buy a i7 920 cpu used right now cheaper and stomp this cpu amd has turned into a joke

I will have to agree with you on this, a used i7 920 right now is around 150-160$ so AMD is 3 years behind.. bloody hell

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#4419667 Posted on: 09/28/2012 06:42 AM

Is AMD only going to make APU's from now on? It's probably a stupid question..

Sorry I haven't been keeping up to date.

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