WEBVTT 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:12.080 Adata XPG V2 memory kits are optimized for the latest Intel gaming platforms. 00:00:10.639 --> 00:00:16.080 Check the link in the video description for more details. Welcome to my 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:20.880 performance overview, I guess you could call it a review of sorts, of AMD's 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:26.320 Richland series of APUs. Now, we only got one of them. We got the 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:28.560 A106800 K. And so we kind of went, okay, 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 00:00:31.599 --> 00:00:38.440 pricing. So let's compare that against the obvious competition, which is, of 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:42.960 course, a sea turtle. Well, no, but it felt that way a 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:48.000 little bit because AMD's Richland is really in a class of its own when it 00:00:44.559 --> 00:00:49.800 comes to a lowcost value gaming 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:56.079 platform. So AMD sort of released this Richland 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 00:00:59.760 --> 00:01:06.240 have to really upgrade your hardware. You can just get um a BIOS update for 00:01:04.559 --> 00:01:10.880 your board or whatever else and you can basically drop in a Richland. Also AMD 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:15.280 has told me that we are going to be looking at FM2 for the next generation 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:18.479 of APUs as well. So they haven't really changed the platform. In fact, they 00:01:16.960 --> 00:01:23.520 haven't really changed the architecture at all. So, it's mostly just a small 00:01:20.479 --> 00:01:26.799 speed bump over the last generation 5000 00:01:23.520 --> 00:01:28.479 series, like the 5800K APU. So, why did 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:32.560 they do this? My guess is it probably has something to do with the release of 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:36.720 Haswell. So, we took the lowest cost Haswell we could find and took a few 00:01:34.960 --> 00:01:41.360 mainstream games that you might want to play on a system that doesn't have a 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:45.119 dedicated graphics card and we ran them head-to-head. Now, with that in mind, we 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:49.920 didn't do any compute performance benchmarking because we already know the 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 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:59.439 very specific usage case here that is not focused on CPU. So, if you want 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:05.320 better CPU performance, go with a Haswell. If you want better GPU 00:02:01.600 --> 00:02:10.080 performance, well, stay tuned because in 00:02:05.320 --> 00:02:12.160 Skyrim, our 4430, which is an i5 4430, 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:17.440 Intel doesn't have an i3 yet. They're launching only the higher end of their 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:22.480 Haswell CPUs, got beat by our 58 or 00:02:17.440 --> 00:02:25.120 rather 6800 K by a whopping 10 frames 00:02:22.480 --> 00:02:29.680 per second, 24 frames per second average on Richland versus 15. Now, with that 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:34.080 said, the 5800K, the last gen one, was only one FPS behind this one. So, you 00:02:31.760 --> 00:02:38.400 can really see it's a small clock bump and not really anything revolutionary in 00:02:36.160 --> 00:02:45.319 terms of performance. Our next game up was Dirt 3. And in this one, Richland 00:02:41.040 --> 00:02:48.400 outperformed Intel Solution by about 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:52.879 75%. That is fantastic. All the way from 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:54.800 22 FPS or so to 37 FPS going for a 00:02:52.879 --> 00:03:00.160 different platform. Bearing in mind this one costs about $30 less than the Intel 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:05.680 solution. Finally, in Starcraft 2, which is a very sort of mainstreamy type 00:03:02.480 --> 00:03:07.440 title, Richland wins by about 25% versus 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:11.680 the Haswell GPU, and we see it once again very close to the 5800K. So, was 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:16.239 this the most exhaustive test of benchmarks that we could have possibly 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:21.360 run? No. Was this pretty much all you need to know about Richland? I would say 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:23.040 yes. AMD's delivered a new chip that 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:26.239 goes on their existing platform that you don't need a new board for. They've 00:03:24.640 --> 00:03:31.920 delivered outstanding graphics performance in a CPU or APU or whatever 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:35.120 the heck you want to call it, which really isn't any different from what 00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:38.159 they did last time, but that fine because what they did last time was 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:42.000 great, too. I've done a fair number of videos about their last generation APU 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 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. 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, 00:03:51.599 --> 00:04:05.570 and other computer videos.