AMD Richland A10-6800K Review

👤by Tony Le Bourne Comments 📅27-08-13
Overclocking

Due to the architecture being near identical to what we have seen in the 'Trinity' based APUs, similar performance is to be expected, so we have taken a different approach to the overclocking of the A10-6800K which was to aim for the best performance on the stock cooling solution. This has practical implications due to the popularity of small form factor system builds, as well as 'out the box' potential without spending extra on a cooling solution (maybe to allow for the purchase of some higher performance memory).

Attempting an overclock is fairly simple with the unlocked APUs however, using 1.41V with the CPU @ 4.4GHz, there was a fair bit of heat and noise to be experienced, considering the marginal performance gains from the CPU I felt that using stock cooling solutions it would be wise to focus on GPU gain over CPU gain.


Cool n' Quiet at work



Turbo Core doing its job


GPU gains can be fairly significant, previously APUs have been able to achieve around 1 GHz on the core speed and the A10-6800K is no exception. Booting in at 1013 MHz bumping NB voltage to 1.3V, however it proved unstable, this setting may prove stable given more time to play around. Knocking the clock speed down to 950 MHz, 106 MHz over stock, proved stable. Paired with the higher memory speed of 2400 MHz, some nice gains should be expected.


Stock GPU settings



GPU OC



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