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performance overview, I guess you could call it a review of sorts, of AMD's
Richland series of APUs. Now, we only got one of them. We got the
A106800 K. And so we kind of went, okay,
so this is going to be priced at around 145 bucks or so, uh, sort of in bulk
pricing. So let's compare that against the obvious competition, which is, of
course, a sea turtle. Well, no, but it felt that way a
little bit because AMD's Richland is really in a class of its own when it
comes to a lowcost value gaming
platform. So AMD sort of released this Richland
series of APUs. They're on the same FM2 socket as the older APUs. So you don't
have to really upgrade your hardware. You can just get um a BIOS update for
your board or whatever else and you can basically drop in a Richland. Also AMD
has told me that we are going to be looking at FM2 for the next generation
of APUs as well. So they haven't really changed the platform. In fact, they
haven't really changed the architecture at all. So, it's mostly just a small
speed bump over the last generation 5000
series, like the 5800K APU. So, why did
they do this? My guess is it probably has something to do with the release of
Haswell. So, we took the lowest cost Haswell we could find and took a few
mainstream games that you might want to play on a system that doesn't have a
dedicated graphics card and we ran them head-to-head. Now, with that in mind, we
didn't do any compute performance benchmarking because we already know the
Intel chip is going to wipe the floor with the AMD one. We're talking about a
very specific usage case here that is not focused on CPU. So, if you want
better CPU performance, go with a Haswell. If you want better GPU
performance, well, stay tuned because in
Skyrim, our 4430, which is an i5 4430,
Intel doesn't have an i3 yet. They're launching only the higher end of their
Haswell CPUs, got beat by our 58 or
rather 6800 K by a whopping 10 frames
per second, 24 frames per second average on Richland versus 15. Now, with that
said, the 5800K, the last gen one, was only one FPS behind this one. So, you
can really see it's a small clock bump and not really anything revolutionary in
terms of performance. Our next game up was Dirt 3. And in this one, Richland
outperformed Intel Solution by about
75%. That is fantastic. All the way from
22 FPS or so to 37 FPS going for a
different platform. Bearing in mind this one costs about $30 less than the Intel
solution. Finally, in Starcraft 2, which is a very sort of mainstreamy type
title, Richland wins by about 25% versus
the Haswell GPU, and we see it once again very close to the 5800K. So, was
this the most exhaustive test of benchmarks that we could have possibly
run? No. Was this pretty much all you need to know about Richland? I would say
yes. AMD's delivered a new chip that
goes on their existing platform that you don't need a new board for. They've
delivered outstanding graphics performance in a CPU or APU or whatever
the heck you want to call it, which really isn't any different from what
they did last time, but that fine because what they did last time was
great, too. I've done a fair number of videos about their last generation APU
and it's awesome. And so, I think that pretty much wraps it up. If you want to
do entry-level gaming and you don't want to buy a graphics card, buy an APU.
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