1 00:00:05,839 --> 00:00:12,080 Adata XPG V2 memory kits are optimized for the latest Intel gaming platforms. 2 00:00:10,639 --> 00:00:16,080 Check the link in the video description for more details. Welcome to my 3 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:20,880 performance overview, I guess you could call it a review of sorts, of AMD's 4 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:26,320 Richland series of APUs. Now, we only got one of them. We got the 5 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:28,560 A106800 K. And so we kind of went, okay, 6 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:34,079 so this is going to be priced at around 145 bucks or so, uh, sort of in bulk 7 00:00:31,599 --> 00:00:38,440 pricing. So let's compare that against the obvious competition, which is, of 8 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:42,960 course, a sea turtle. Well, no, but it felt that way a 9 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:48,000 little bit because AMD's Richland is really in a class of its own when it 10 00:00:44,559 --> 00:00:49,800 comes to a lowcost value gaming 11 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:56,079 platform. So AMD sort of released this Richland 12 00:00:53,520 --> 00:01:01,520 series of APUs. They're on the same FM2 socket as the older APUs. So you don't 13 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:06,240 have to really upgrade your hardware. You can just get um a BIOS update for 14 00:01:04,559 --> 00:01:10,880 your board or whatever else and you can basically drop in a Richland. Also AMD 15 00:01:08,799 --> 00:01:15,280 has told me that we are going to be looking at FM2 for the next generation 16 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:18,479 of APUs as well. So they haven't really changed the platform. In fact, they 17 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:23,520 haven't really changed the architecture at all. So, it's mostly just a small 18 00:01:20,479 --> 00:01:26,799 speed bump over the last generation 5000 19 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:28,479 series, like the 5800K APU. So, why did 20 00:01:26,799 --> 00:01:32,560 they do this? My guess is it probably has something to do with the release of 21 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:36,720 Haswell. So, we took the lowest cost Haswell we could find and took a few 22 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:41,360 mainstream games that you might want to play on a system that doesn't have a 23 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:45,119 dedicated graphics card and we ran them head-to-head. Now, with that in mind, we 24 00:01:43,439 --> 00:01:49,920 didn't do any compute performance benchmarking because we already know the 25 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:54,640 Intel chip is going to wipe the floor with the AMD one. We're talking about a 26 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:59,439 very specific usage case here that is not focused on CPU. So, if you want 27 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:05,320 better CPU performance, go with a Haswell. If you want better GPU 28 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:10,080 performance, well, stay tuned because in 29 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:12,160 Skyrim, our 4430, which is an i5 4430, 30 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:17,440 Intel doesn't have an i3 yet. They're launching only the higher end of their 31 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:22,480 Haswell CPUs, got beat by our 58 or 32 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:25,120 rather 6800 K by a whopping 10 frames 33 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:29,680 per second, 24 frames per second average on Richland versus 15. Now, with that 34 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:34,080 said, the 5800K, the last gen one, was only one FPS behind this one. So, you 35 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:38,400 can really see it's a small clock bump and not really anything revolutionary in 36 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:45,319 terms of performance. Our next game up was Dirt 3. And in this one, Richland 37 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:48,400 outperformed Intel Solution by about 38 00:02:45,319 --> 00:02:52,879 75%. That is fantastic. All the way from 39 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:54,800 22 FPS or so to 37 FPS going for a 40 00:02:52,879 --> 00:03:00,160 different platform. Bearing in mind this one costs about $30 less than the Intel 41 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:05,680 solution. Finally, in Starcraft 2, which is a very sort of mainstreamy type 42 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:07,440 title, Richland wins by about 25% versus 43 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:11,680 the Haswell GPU, and we see it once again very close to the 5800K. So, was 44 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:16,239 this the most exhaustive test of benchmarks that we could have possibly 45 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:21,360 run? No. Was this pretty much all you need to know about Richland? I would say 46 00:03:18,319 --> 00:03:23,040 yes. AMD's delivered a new chip that 47 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:26,239 goes on their existing platform that you don't need a new board for. They've 48 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:31,920 delivered outstanding graphics performance in a CPU or APU or whatever 49 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:35,120 the heck you want to call it, which really isn't any different from what 50 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:38,159 they did last time, but that fine because what they did last time was 51 00:03:36,319 --> 00:03:42,000 great, too. I've done a fair number of videos about their last generation APU 52 00:03:40,239 --> 00:03:45,200 and it's awesome. And so, I think that pretty much wraps it up. If you want to 53 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:48,560 do entry-level gaming and you don't want to buy a graphics card, buy an APU. 54 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:54,350 Thanks for checking out this episode of Linus Tech Tips. Don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings, reviews, 55 00:03:51,599 --> 00:04:05,570 and other computer videos.