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AMD A8-7670K Now Official

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Earlier this week, AMD took the wraps off on the latest addition to the “Godavari” accelerated processing unit (APU) lineup, the unlocked AMD A8-7670k.

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Aimed at budget-conscious PC users, the new A8-7670k packs a total of 10 compute cores which consist of a quartet Steamroller cores with a maximum clock speed of 3.9GHz and a six-core Radeon R7 integrated GPU.

As far as compute performance in concerned, AMD’s new accelerated processing unit is geared to go up against the Intel Core i3-4160 which is in the same price point ($110-120 range). Based on their internal testing the A8-7670K outperforms its rival on all three categories listed on AMD’s presentation.

a8-7670k performance

On the graphics side of things, AMD pitted their new brainchild against another budget-centric offering from Intel, the G3258, with an accompanying NVidia GeForce GT 730. Once again, the A8-7670K came out on top by providing better frame rates on all online games that were ran during AMD’s internal testing.

a8-7670k GPU

AMD A8-7670K specs:
Microarchitecture: Steamroller
Processor Family: Godavari
FM2+ Socket
A88X, A78 & A55 Chipset
3.6 GHz Base Core Clock, 3.9 GHz Turbo Frequency
Quad-core processor with four (4) threads
L1 Cache:
* 2 x 96 KB 3-way set associative shared instruction caches
* 4 x 16 KB 4-way set associative data caches
L2 Cache: 2 x 2 MB 16-way set associative shared caches
Support for dual-channel 2133MHz memory modules
Integrated R7 Series GPU, 757MHz Base Frequency
384 Shader Cores, supports up to 4 displays
95W TDP
Support for DirectX 11.2, DirectX 12 and Mantle APIs
Vulkan, AMD TrueAudio, VCE 2.0 & UVD 4.0
Virtual Super Resolution, FreeSync & EyeFinity

The suggested price (SEP) of the new AMD A8-7670K is $117.99 and is now available on online retailers and participating system vendors.

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AMD A8-7670K Now Official

Ronnie Bulaong Leave a comment

Earlier this week, AMD took the wraps off on the latest addition to the “Godavari” accelerated processing unit (APU) lineup, the unlocked AMD A8-7670k.

a8-7670k philippines

Aimed at budget-conscious PC users, the new A8-7670k packs a total of 10 compute cores which consist of a quartet Steamroller cores with a maximum clock speed of 3.9GHz and a six-core Radeon R7 integrated GPU.

As far as compute performance in concerned, AMD’s new accelerated processing unit is geared to go up against the Intel Core i3-4160 which is in the same price point ($110-120 range). Based on their internal testing the A8-7670K outperforms its rival on all three categories listed on AMD’s presentation.

a8-7670k performance

On the graphics side of things, AMD pitted their new brainchild against another budget-centric offering from Intel, the G3258, with an accompanying NVidia GeForce GT 730. Once again, the A8-7670K came out on top by providing better frame rates on all online games that were ran during AMD’s internal testing.

a8-7670k GPU

AMD A8-7670K specs:
Microarchitecture: Steamroller
Processor Family: Godavari
FM2+ Socket
A88X, A78 & A55 Chipset
3.6 GHz Base Core Clock, 3.9 GHz Turbo Frequency
Quad-core processor with four (4) threads
L1 Cache:
* 2 x 96 KB 3-way set associative shared instruction caches
* 4 x 16 KB 4-way set associative data caches
L2 Cache: 2 x 2 MB 16-way set associative shared caches
Support for dual-channel 2133MHz memory modules
Integrated R7 Series GPU, 757MHz Base Frequency
384 Shader Cores, supports up to 4 displays
95W TDP
Support for DirectX 11.2, DirectX 12 and Mantle APIs
Vulkan, AMD TrueAudio, VCE 2.0 & UVD 4.0
Virtual Super Resolution, FreeSync & EyeFinity

The suggested price (SEP) of the new AMD A8-7670K is $117.99 and is now available on online retailers and participating system vendors.

The post AMD A8-7670K Now Official appeared first on YugaTech | Philippines, Tech News & Reviews.

AMD A8-7670K Now Official

Ronnie Bulaong Leave a comment

Earlier this week, AMD took the wraps off on the latest addition to the “Godavari” accelerated processing unit (APU) lineup, the unlocked AMD A8-7670k.

a8-7670k philippines

Aimed at budget-conscious PC users, the new A8-7670k packs a total of 10 compute cores which consist of a quartet Steamroller cores with a maximum clock speed of 3.9GHz and a six-core Radeon R7 integrated GPU.

As far as compute performance in concerned, AMD’s new accelerated processing unit is geared to go up against the Intel Core i3-4160 which is in the same price point ($110-120 range). Based on their internal testing the A8-7670K outperforms its rival on all three categories listed on AMD’s presentation.

a8-7670k performance

On the graphics side of things, AMD pitted their new brainchild against another budget-centric offering from Intel, the G3258, with an accompanying NVidia GeForce GT 730. Once again, the A8-7670K came out on top by providing better frame rates on all online games that were ran during AMD’s internal testing.

a8-7670k GPU

AMD A8-7670K specs:
Microarchitecture: Steamroller
Processor Family: Godavari
FM2+ Socket
A88X, A78 & A55 Chipset
3.6 GHz Base Core Clock, 3.9 GHz Turbo Frequency
Quad-core processor with four (4) threads
L1 Cache:
* 2 x 96 KB 3-way set associative shared instruction caches
* 4 x 16 KB 4-way set associative data caches
L2 Cache: 2 x 2 MB 16-way set associative shared caches
Support for dual-channel 2133MHz memory modules
Integrated R7 Series GPU, 757MHz Base Frequency
384 Shader Cores, supports up to 4 displays
95W TDP
Support for DirectX 11.2, DirectX 12 and Mantle APIs
Vulkan, AMD TrueAudio, VCE 2.0 & UVD 4.0
Virtual Super Resolution, FreeSync & EyeFinity

The suggested price (SEP) of the new AMD A8-7670K is $117.99 and is now available on online retailers and participating system vendors.

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Intel Intros Five Broadwell Desktop Processors

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In addition to the four new 5th Generation mobile processors, Intel also announced five new desktop SKUs under the Broadwell which includes two Core i7 chips and three Core i5 processors.

Instead of using the usual ‘K’ to denote unlocked processors, Intel uses ‘C’ on the two new overclock-able SKUs. The chipmaker did, however, retains the use of ‘R’ nomenclature for the new soldered processors under the Broadwell lineup.

All of the new desktop processors that Intel launched are based on the chipmaker’s 14nm process. These new SKUs share the same integrated GPU (Intel Iris Pro 6200) and same TDP rated at 65W.

As part of the package, both the CPU and iGPU can take advantage of the Intel Crystal Well – a 128MB eDRAM integrated on the processor die that acts as an L4 Cache.

Intel Broadwell Desktop

These new 5th Generation desktop SKUs are expected to be released in the market within a month or two. Users who are planning to upgrade to any of these new processors should be happy to know that all of these chips are compatible with existing Intel 9 Series motherboards.

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Intel Debuts New 5th Generation Mobile Processors

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Along with the official announcement of Thunderbolt 3, Intel also debuted the last batch of mobile processors under the Broadwell lineup which consists of three new Intel Core i7 processors and a dual-core Intel Core i5 chip.

The announcement of these new Broadwell-H processors came five months after Intel announced the Broadwell-U earlier this year.

There are actually five (5) processors that were launched during the event, but we excluded the Intel Core i7-5700HQ from our list because it had already made its way to some high-end notebooks prior to the announcement.

Broadwell lineup

All of the newly-launched Broadwell mobile processors are equipped with an Intel Iris Pro 6200 iGPU, albeit with varying base frequency. These new 5th Gen SKUs also share the same TDP which is rated at 47W, noticeably higher than any of the mobile processor that Intel launched back in January.

Lastly, all of these new chips (excluding the i7-5700HQ) are also embedded with an Intel Crystal Well (Crystalwell), a 128MB embedded RAM (eDRAM) that is referred to by the chipmaker as L4 Cache that is accessible by both the CPU and the GPU.

Intel expects notebook PCs with the new 5th Generation Intel Core mobile processors to start popping out in the next month or two.

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