Thread: AMD AEight-3850 APU

AMD's afresh launched Fusion A-Series processors are assuredly authoritative their way into the PCs, and shoppers attractive for an bargain apparatus that's still able of arrest their media and alike a bit of gaming are in for a treat. A quick attending at our PCs accumulation tests reveals a rather abrupt alternative from manufacturers for Intel processors.

This isn't absolutely hasty - while battling AMD has continued offered strong, competitively priced CPUs, Intel articles accept consistently accurate to be added powerful, adverse AMD's cost-advantage in all but a few categories.

For higher-end machines that isn't about to change. But AMD's new A-Series APUs are positioned to accomplish a actual candied accord for budget-minded consumers who demand to save a bit of cash, but don't demand a subpar experience.



Let us get some of the abracadabra out of the way. AMD's A-series APUs - ahead codenamed "Llano" - arresting AMD's about-face bottomward to the 32 nanometer process, chipping abroad at ability burning while advocacy performance. "Lynx" is the codename for Llano's desktop iteration; in notebooks, it was codenamed "Sabine.

" An "APU" is a new termed coined by AMD, acceptation "Accelerated Processing Unit." It agency that the CPU and GPU are accumulated assimilate a distinct dent - affiliated to Intel's Sandy Bridge CPUs. Both Intel and AMD accept implemented a anatomy of automatic overclocking - Intel calls it Turbo Boost, AMD calls it Turbo Core.

Both technololgies assignment similarly: back the processor has some additional thermal headroom, it overclocks a few notches, carrying an added bit of acceleration back affairs allow. Neither of the two processors I looked at action these technologies however.

AMD will be absolution a archetypal after on - the 2.4 GHZ A8-3800 - that will action Turbo Core, but no appraisement or availability has been appear yet.