AMD A10-6800K (Richland) APU Review

Unfortunately we had stability issues when overclocking the A10-6800K with our Biostar Hi-Fi A85W, despite updating it to the latest edition of the BIOS so we are only including stock results in this test.

While we were easily able to get the system to boot at 4.8 GHz, we couldn't achieve stability at more than 4.4 GHz.

If you wanted to upgrade from the A8 5600k how much additional performance would you get? Today we will find out.

Test System:

AMD A10-6800K
AMD A8-5600K

Motherboard: Biostar Hi-Fi A85W
Memory: AMD Gaming Series 2133 MHz
Power Supply: Seasonic Platinum 1000W
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 8670D
Graphics Card (Dual Graphics): AMD Radeon HD 6670
CPU Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC14PE
Hard Drive: Corsair Neutron 240 GB
Monitor: Viewsonic VX2260WM
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)

Software:

PCMark 8
PCMark 7
3DMark
3DMark 11
3DMark Vantage
SiSoft Sandra 2013
Cinebench R11.5
CrystalDiskMark
Cyberlink MediaEspresso 6.7
VLC Media Player
Performance Monitor
Unigine Heaven Benchmark
Super Pi 1.5 Mod
CPUID Hardware Monitor
CPU-Z
GPU-Z
WinRAR
DiRT Showdown
Battlefield 3
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

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