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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FM2 socket

AMD baptised the FM2 platform "Virgo". Why AMD went from a 905 to a 904 pin socket is the million dollar question. Especially as two of the previous FM1 chipsets are being reused on the brand new FM2 motherboards, the A55 and A75 chipsets. New however is the flagship FM2 chipset: the A85X. The latter being targeted at the performance/enthousiast crowd, while the two lower labelled chipsets are more intended to be used on entry and mainstream setups. Looking on the slide below, AMD kinda promises a future CPU that will be pin compatible with the FM2 socket, which is good news.

 

 

Not much new to announce here, besides the A85X chipset supporting CrossfireX technology, but to be honest it will be very doubtful anybody will put two GPU's on an APU powered platform. Secondly the A85X increases the SATA 6GBs ports to 8, while the other chipsets offer a total of 6. 

 

 

 

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