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

Name: AMD A10-6800K APU
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, June 05, 2013, 12:01 AM EDT

For this next set of tests, we pit the integrated processor graphics incorporated into AMD's Richland-based APUs against Intel's HD 2500, HD 4000, and HD 4600 series engines and a few of the least expensive discrete GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD: the GeForce GT 430, Radeon HD 6450, and Radeon HD 5550. We tested the games at high-quality settings, at a resolution of 19200x1200 with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering enabled to put a significant strain on the various GPUs.

Hi-Res Gaming Tests: ET:QW and L4D2

Gaming Benchmarks

In both cases, the Radeon HD 8670D graphics cores built into the new AMD A10-6800K and A10-6700 APUs offered nearly double (or more) the performance of Intel's integrated graphics solutions. The HD 4600 engine in the Haswell-based Core i5-4670K put up much better numbers than the HD 4000, but it still AMD by a wide margin here.

Hi-Res Gaming Tests: Metro 2033 and Just Cause 2

Gaming Benchmarks

These Metro 2033 and Just Cause 2 tests are somewhat more demanding than the others posted above, and as such, we had to crank down the image quality in both titles. These tests were run at a lower-resolution (1680x1050) with in-game graphics options set to their medium values, with only 2XAA (JC2) and 4X anisotropic filtering enabled. Still, the trend is the same, with AMD's latest APUs clearly outpacing Intel's various HD graphics options.

Tags: AMD, Radeon, graphics, CPU, processor, Fusion, APU, FM2

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com