AMD A10 6800K review
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killer_939
Doesn't make me feel bad about buying the 5800k for my backup rig a few months back. Phew... 🙂
BLEH!
Looking at one of these for a home server. A85X is an awesome chipset and one of these I could well leave running 24/7 quietly in another room.
WAROQ
I think I'm gonna buy this one too..for my gaming rig
Speed Weed
Will you be able to play Crysis 3 on your new rig, WAROQ?
sverek
AdeelEjaz
schmidtbag
damn 2 new processors released within the same week and both of them were disappointing. At least the 6800K seems to have more performance gains over it's predecessor compared to the i7-4770k to the 3770k (though, only Windows seemed to not get any performance gains with the 4770k, Linux makes the upgrade more worth it).
Also, I personally would find it interesting if there were to be a dual-socket FM2 board. Crossfire the 2 IGPs, get a 6670, and you've got yourself a decent system. Probably not that cost effective though.
mystvearn
Nice article. Can you please do a test with the discrete GPU which the 6800k supports? How much performance increase can we see from a combo in crossfire support.
Looks like I'll be waiting for Kaveri then.
deltatux
Chillin
sykozis
The performance is actually pretty reasonable for entry-level and budget markets... Can't wait for Kaveri though....
deltatux
BLEH!
Neo Cyrus
Chillin
I like to be realistic. I've had almost as many AMD systems as Intel, I don't particularly care which color logo my chips have. Like I said, my second to last build was an AMD.
Kabini (Jaguar) uses more power than an Intel (IVB) i7-3517u while offering nowhere even close the performance:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/604?vs=823
Trinity fares little better, it uses up more power than an i7-3517u while also offering inferior performance:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/729?vs=600
ARM still doesn't have "performance" per se. Their top of the line A15 chips perform near the 2006 Intel Core Duo chips; what they do have is lower power usage for that performance (at the moment) while still lacking X86. Atom as it is (which is a horribly dated design) is still competitive with the latest ARM designs (except for the GPU), and Silvermont looks to completely destroy that performance in every way.
The console win for AMD is a victory not over Intel, but over IBM and Nvidia. Besides, the margins there are horrible.
I still have high hopes for Temash, but the lack of any major OEM wins is horribly worrying.
Noisiv
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/amd-a10-6800k/power-4.png
It remains an issue EVERYWHERE. Power consumption is everything.
If you command power consumption, the easiest thing you can do is trade it for some performance.
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http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/amd-a10-6800k/power-1.png
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/amd-a10-6800k/power-2.png
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/cpu/amd-a10-6800k/power-3.png
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/amd-a10-6800k_8.html#sect0
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Elder III
^^^ considering the A10 has a graphics chip that you can do something with, whereas the Intel HD 4000 (let alone the HD 2500) is pretty poor for any kind of gaming at all.... I can live with a higher tdp.
*for the record I personally do not care about power consumption. If my PSU can handle it then I'm perfectly content. I don't want to hear about saving the polar bears either, mankind will all kill each other long before the oceans rise to swallow the world. :realmad:
scoter man1
What the heck? I just bought a 5800K like 2 weeks ago and I had no idea this was coming out. Thankfully it doesn't look like it has much of a leg up.
Noisiv
deltatux