14 DAY TRIAL // Advanced Micro Devices continues to expands the A Series of accelerated processing units, since there is a pretty broad price segment to cover. The latest arrival is the A10-6790K, with the K defining it as a high-end, overclockable chip.
The name of the thing is enough to fool people into thinking that this could be the best in the series, if onlookers were to be unfamiliar with the company's product lineup.
It sounds rather like a high-end graphics card really. The Radeon HD 6000 series is still fresh in people's minds after all.
Still, it is, nonetheless, a processor, although with AMD's such units being almost exclusively merged with GPUs these days, that's not totally accurate.
Fortunately, AMD's term “accelerated processing unit” caught on fast, so we can't easily mistake an APU for a CPU anymore.
Case in point, the A10-6790K features the Radeon HD 8670D graphics, clocked at 844 MHz. It should run any games well, especially if there's enough RAM on the motherboard.
And since the APU comes with a DDR3-1866 memory controller, that won't be a problem.
That said, the APU is a quad-core unit with a base clock speed of 4 GHz but the ability to jump to 4.3 GHz in a pinch.
That's really just a very tiny bit behind the flagship A10-6800K, which runs at 4.1 GHz and 4.4 GHz, respectively.
Other than that, there is no difference between the two. Even the graphics processor we have mentioned above is identical, and the TDP is at the same level too, 100W.
And if the rumors about a 15% lower price than of the A10-6800K turn out true, that means that the A10-6790K could sell pretty well, since the performance isn't behind by that much.
For anyone wondering, the AMD A10-6800K accelerated processing unit has a price of $119.99 / €119.9, so the price of the A10-6790K would be of around $100 / €100.