It’s a little confusing to see the company pitching an updated version of a product range that was never properly launched but on the bright side, AMD’s Kaveri update seems a little more substantial than Intel’s recent Haswell refresh, if only for the fact that the A8-7600 is finally set to appear at retail. Along with the A8-7600 due to arrive for $100, AMD is also shipping the $77 A6-7400K and $155 A10-7800, the latter of which being noteworthy because it has 45/65W TDP modes like the A8-7600 except it gets a full-blown R7 GPU featuring 8 CUs with 512 SPUs and 32 TAUs like the unlocked A10-7850K. All models support DDR3-2133 memory along with the new Socket FM2+ with chipset support for PCIe 3.0. Since Kaveri brings some pretty significant changes, it’s unsurprising that a socket update was in order. Rather than go over the Kaveri architecture again, please refer back to our article published in January. With that said, let’s jump right into testing.
System Specs & Memory Bandwidth
The AMD A10-7800 was tested using dual-channel DDR3-2133 memory which allowed for a bandwidth of 14.2GB/s, slightly faster than what we saw from the A8-7600.
The A10-7800’s cache performance is also very similar to the A8-7600 while its L1 cache is considerably slower than the Core i3-4130’s.
