AMD A10-6800K and A10-6700 Richland APUs Tested

A few months back, AMD unveiled a handful of mobile Elite A-Series APUs, formerly codenamed Richland. Those products built upon the company’s existing Trinity-based products but offered additional power and frequency optimizations designed to enhance overall performance and increase battery life. In addition to these optimizations, AMD also began offering a host of specialized software with their Richland APUs that’s leveraged their inherent strengths--namely, AMD Face Login, Gesture Control, Screen Mirror, and various video enhancement features like AMD Steady Video, Quick Stream, and Picture Perfect. The ultimate goal was to make AMD hardware and software more appealing to OEMs and consumers alike.

Today AMD is taking the same approach and launching a handful of new Richland APUs but for desktops and small form factor PCs. Though these APUs offer all of the same features and benefits as their mobile counterparts, the additional power and thermal headroom afforded by desktop form factors has allowed AMD to crank things up a few notches further on both the CPU and GPU sides. You’ll see what we mean on the pages ahead, but first let’s get some specifications out of the way and cover some related information pertinent to today’s launch...

AMD A-Series APU	Description
Tech/Package	32nm, FM2 socket
TDP Configs	65W and 100W configurations
Processor Core	“Piledriver” 32nm HKMG process core (up to 4 cores), up to 128 KB L1 Cache (64 KB Instruction, 64 KB Data) Up to 4 MB L2, 2 x 128-bit FPUs / compute module
Memory	Up to DDR3 2133 @ 1.5V
Graphics Core	Up to 384 Radeon™ Cores 2.0, DirectX 11 capable, UVD3, VCE
Displays	Digital Display I/F DP0: Display Port, HDMI, DVI Digital Display I/F DP1: Display Port, HDMI, DVI Digital Display I/F DP2: Display Port, HDMI, DVI Additional digital display supported using DP 1.2 daisy-chain connection VGA on FCH
Power Management	Multiple low-power states 32-nm process for decreased power consumption System Management Mode (SMM) ACPI-compliant, including support for processor performance states (P-states), processor power states (C-states), and sleep states including S0, S3, S4, and S5 Per compute module power gating (CC6) PCIe core power gating PCIe speed power policy GPU power gating of Radeon™ Cores and video decode (UVD3) Enhanced AMD Turbo Core technology featuring Temperature Smart Turbo Core
AMD A85 FCH	Integrated DAC supporting VGA.
Tech/Package	65nm / FC BGA, 605-Ball, 23x23mm, .8mm pitch
TDP Configs	2.7W to 4.7W for typical configurations
UMI	x4 Gen 2 + DP
SATA	8 Ports, 6 Gbps
RAID	0, 1, 5, 10
USB	A85X: 4 USB 3.0 Ports, 10 USB 2.0 Ports, 2 USB 1.1 Internal Ports
PCIe GPPs	4x1 Gen2
HWM	Incorporates Fan Control, Voltage Level Sensing
Consumer IR	CIR Receiver