By Zak Storey
Introduction and performance
Let us tell you about the experience we had reviewing AMD’s A8-7670K APU. It came in a tiny little white box. Presumably not the retail packaging. God, let’s hope not. Though judging by AMD’s lack of marketing share, this could be the real deal. It’s not possible to tell whether the 7670K went to another reviewer before us. Anyway, after setting up our standard test platform, we installed the chipset and began our preliminary testing.
Overall, the processor has a total of two computational cores, providing four threads. Say what you like about compute cores, AMD, but Prime95 and Cinebench don’t lie to us, and this processor is quite the slow processor. Unfortunately, with 60% of the CPU taken up by the graphical side of things, the overall performance in these applications is still quite limited.
That explains why, even though the 7670K clocks an average of 3.6GHz at max, we achieved some pretty mediocre benchmarks when it came to computational tasks. In fact, we left it to complete our 30GB archive test, but after taking 30 minutes to complete 49%, we figured it would be a better use of our time to stop the process and continue with …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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