The AMD A10-5800B was a desktop processor with 4 cores, launched in October 2012. It is part of the A10 lineup, using the Trinity architecture with Socket FM2. A10-5800B has 4 MB of L2 cache and operates at 3.8 GHz by default, but can boost up to 4.2 GHz, depending on the workload. AMD is building the A10-5800B on a 32 nm production process using 1,303 million transistors. The silicon die of the chip is not fabricated at AMD, but at the foundry of GlobalFoundries. The multiplier is locked on A10-5800B, which limits its overclocking capabilities.
With a TDP of 100 W, the A10-5800B consumes a good deal of power, so decent cooling is needed. AMD's processor supports DDR3 memory with a dual-channel interface. The highest officially supported memory speed is 1866 MT/s, but with overclocking (and the right memory modules) you can go even higher. For communication with other components in the machine, A10-5800B uses a PCI-Express Gen 2 connection. This processor features the Radeon HD 7660D integrated graphics solution.
Hardware virtualization is available on the A10-5800B, which greatly improves virtual machine performance. Programs using Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) will run on this processor, boosting performance for calculation-heavy applications.