Monday, September 16th 2013

Low-power AMD APUs Begin Selling

AMD's two low-cost socket FM2 APUs based on the 32 nm "Richland" silicon, the A8-6500T, and A10-6700T, began selling in the US. The two are priced at $108.59 and $155.91 a piece, respectively. Their biggest feature is the 45W TDP, compared to 65W on regular SKUs, and 100W on the factory-unlocked ones. Both are quad-core parts. The A8-6500T features CPU clock speeds of 2.10 GHz, with 3.10 GHz TurboCore speeds, Radeon HD 8550D integrated graphics with 256 stream processors, and 4 MB of L2 cache; whereas the A10-6700T features 2.50 GHz CPU clocks, with 3.50 GHz TurboCore speeds, Radeon HD 8650D integrated graphics with 384 stream processors, and 4 MB of L2 cache.
Source: CPU World
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8 Comments on Low-power AMD APUs Begin Selling

#1
micropage7
nice start AMD, i love low wattage and powerful processor
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#2
_JP_
45W should enough for them to be passive-cooled with a medium-sized heatsink.
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#3
Sinzia
Hmm, I wonder how well unRaid works with this.
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#4
TRWOV
I have an unRAID server with 6 HDDs running on a C60 (1GHz Bobcat dual core) w/4GB of RAM and it does fine.
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#5
Jorge
AMD has a whole lotta goodness on the way. ;)
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#6
RCoon
JorgeAMD has a whole lotta goodness on the way. ;)
Not really, priced higher, clocked lower. I dont see who will use a lower clocked quad core with integrated GPU that was originally designed for light gaming and/or heavy multimedia loads. You either buy a low power processor for HTPC, or you buy a 5/6800K, not this.
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#7
NeoXF
RCoonNot really, priced higher, clocked lower. I dont see who will use a lower clocked quad core with integrated GPU that was originally designed for light gaming and/or heavy multimedia loads. You either buy a low power processor for HTPC, or you buy a 5/6800K, not this.
... :confused: and your point... is!?
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#8
tacosRcool
too bad they didn't have these babies ready to buy a month ago when I built my htpc...
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