Slightly better than the Core i3 for family entertainment

Jul 20, 2015 14:33 GMT  ·  By

Found of Xbox Ones and PlayStations, AMD's APU family has received a new member for desktops dedicated to everyday computing, the AMD A8-7670K.

This is the second Kaveri processor launched by AMD after this May's A10-7870K that was also a low-priced, affordable APU aimed at gamers on a budget. While the previous APU was geared towards gamers, this one is dedicated to home office PCs.

The new A8-7670K will replace the previous A8-7650K APU as the A8 has 10 compute cores in total with 4 CPU cores and 6 GPU cores. Performance-wise, it is placed between the A10-7870K and the A10-7850K, beating the last APU with slightly better GPU frequency of 757 MHz compares to the 7850K's 720MHz. Besides that the A8-7670K has CPU Frequency of 3.9/3.6 GHz and an L2 Cache of 4MB just like the rest of the Kaveri refresh APUs.

However, the sort of performance requirements of this new processing unit is quite minimal and commonly found among PC entertainment users. It claims to beat Intel discrete graphics like the Pentium G3258 and promises excellent Dota II or any other mainstream eSports-oriented game while paired with R7 240 or R7 250 in Dual Graphics.

Only one dollar cheaper than the Core i3 and slightly more powerful

Intel also claims that it will have at least 116 per cent more performance availability than Intel's Core i3-4160 in 3DMark benchmarks and at least 166 percent better performance than the same Core i3 in Photoshop applications. Moreover, AMD insists that it also offers up to 10% more performance in Home Office PC applications than the Core i3-4160 and is twice as fast in family games like Lego Batman 3 than the same Core i3.

Supporting DirectX 12 and claiming to work better with Windows 10 Movies and TV Video Payer, the Edge Browser and leverages native H.264 encoding to record and stream your games online.

Overall, AMD wants to enter in low-level competition against Intel with entry-level processing units that have a large enough market for portable gaming enthusiasts

The price at which AMD wants to sell the new APU is placed at $117.99, which is only a dollar less than Intel's Core i3-4160 CPUs. For only $52, you could buy the AMD 68H-based motherboards on which the company recommends users to place their A8s.