AMD A10-6790K FM2 APU hits retail shelves

Posted on Friday, November 29 2013 @ 10:42 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
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TPU reports AMD's A10-6790K Socket FM2 APU has been spotted in Japan. This new chip is based on the 32nm Richland core, it's positioned between the A10-6700 and the A10-6800K. It has a 100W TDP and features a 4GHz core, 4.3GHz TurboCore, 844MHz Radeon HD 8670D graphics, DDR3-1866 support, and an unlocked base-clock multiplier. Pricing is said to be around 15% lower than the A10-6800K.
The A10-6790K features 4.00 GHz CPU clocks, with maximum TurboCore frequencies of 4.30 GHz, each a notch (0.5x base) lower than the 4.10 GHz core and 4.40 GHz TurboCore frequencies of the A10-6800K. Further, the maximum rated DRAM speed is lowered from DDR3-2133 MHz on the A10-6800K, to DDR3-1866 MHz on the new chip. It features the same Radeon HD 8670D graphics clocked at 844 MHz, and its TDP rating is the same 100W. Expect the chip to be priced about 15 percent lower than the A10-6800K.


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