AMD A8-3870K Black Edition & Hybrid Crossfire Review
CineBench and POV-Ray
Published: 25th May 2012 | Source: AMD | Price: £90 |
CineBench
Firstly it's worth pointing out that from the FX8150 down the OpenGL results were obtained on a GTX570, and from the rest on a HD7970. Even still the HD6550D gets its first test and performs much better than we'd anticipated. Certainly it is by no means disgraced. The CPU scores aren't bad either for a straight Quad Core, especially when we see how average the FX8150 results are.
POV-Ray
POV-Ray has two major areas of comparison. The absolute speed, and the rendering speed available from each core. As we can see the overall performance isn't too bad when compared to some much more expensive hardware, and the per CPU score is right in the ballpark.
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Have been running one of these in my daughter's rig for a few months now. Its does everything asked of it with consumate ease. Mild gaming and internet browsing - it doesn't even break a sweat. The only thing that I noticed is that HWMonitor doesn't report the temps correctly.Quote
I personally have one of these and i think they are excellent!
Got my iGPU at 800Mhz from the stock 600MHz and most games play in 1080p with medium detail.
Also overclocked my HyperX Blu 1600Mhz to 1866Mhz so i get even better performance.
I would recommend this for anyone who likes some light gaming,Quote
Got my iGPU at 800Mhz from the stock 600MHz and most games play in 1080p with medium detail.
Also overclocked my HyperX Blu 1600Mhz to 1866Mhz so i get even better performance.
I would recommend this for anyone who likes some light gaming,Quote
surpised they let tom test one of these after his rightfully scathing attack on faildozer.
i was an amd fan, until that chip came out, now i'm leaning towards an intel build for the first time in over a decadeQuote
i was an amd fan, until that chip came out, now i'm leaning towards an intel build for the first time in over a decadeQuote
I think this CPU/APU is underrated. Ok it can`t keep up with an i5 or i7 but it has a lot of power and packs a decent gpu in there too. I used this one in a PC for a costumer, he can play nearly all games (even though in low settings) and it`s more than enough for internet, watching movies etc. I was really suprised by it when i tested it. And it`s cheap too, over here in Germany you get the A8-3870K for around 100â¬, really nice price (cheapest i6 is around 150â¬). I`m using alot AMD CPUs cause my avarage costumer does not have too much money and with the FMI chips i get a Cpu and a Gpu for little money. For Multimedia-PCs this is a good choice.Quote
its about time amd got back into the budget market, and it sounds like they've come back to the budget market, and slaughtered all competition at this kind of price point ...
they just need to get the high end sorted out and give intel some serious competition again.Quote
they just need to get the high end sorted out and give intel some serious competition again.Quote
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