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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.

Small Overclocking Test

Air tests:

We tested with mild voltages the daily OC potential of our A10 5800K sample. Reaching a stable 4700MHz was impressive, especially since the FM1 CPU's hardly reached 3.6-3.8GHz. But that's in fact comparing apples to oranges as the based CPU technology is totally different. We had some mild issues with the early BIOSes of the MSI G85X board. Most of them have been corrected, though memory overclocking speeds had to remain sub 2400MHz, otherwise we either would end up with a corrupt video output or just a black screen. Similar with the HTT link overclocking which came to a halt around 112 HTT with or without a dedicated graphics card inserted.

Here are some of the achieved scores on air:

LN2 time then, always fun with AMD as hardly never cold issues are experienced. We got our sample CPU quickly at a stable 609MHz at 1.8Vcore, messing with some voltages and settings allowed to pass 1M and Pifast at 6438MHz. However to achieve faster scores we need more RAM speed in the 2600MHz region. Especially if we consider benching the HD7660D iGPU. With 2400MHz only average scores are doable. Board limitation or CPU ? We will find out soon as testing on a Gigabyte board will take place.

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