Thread: AMD Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition

During the month of May this year meets the Californian company nothing more nor less than 40 years producing semiconductor devices. In addition during the month this year also marks the tenth anniversary of its Athlon processor line, which has given so much to talk about during its existence.

No doubt the combination of two anniversaries multiples of ten is a rare event, so AMD has decided to celebrate in style with the launch of a new dual-core Athlon processor following the trend of the company always make friendly products the users pocket.

This new processor is to replace the old version of Kuma core, the X2 7750. Giving a quick polish with respect to the specifications of the processor we can say that is produced at 65 nm run at 2800 MHz and brings the unlocked multiplier as is tradition in the Black Edition. It has 2 MB of L3 cache and a maximum TDP of 95 W. As we can realize there is not much innovation in the foregoing. However, his great grace lies in the economic aspect: its suggested retail price rises to the modest sum of $ 69.

Most of you already know how we work: we run the tests of our arch-known battery comparing the protagonist of this review with the previous Kuma the X2 7750 which-presumably-dethrone the time of launch. The tests will be performed three times and the results are averaged, all to ensure that the numbers are completely reliable.

With respect to the evidence in games, will run in 3 modes. The first is a low quality and low resolution, so that the processor is primarily responsible for the FPS rate that we see the second mode will be at a level of detail resolution and means, and the third run with the details High resolution up to check if the processor is at the height of a high-level gaming.