AMD A8-Series microprocessor family

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Athlon II X4
  • » K10 microarchitecture
  • » 0.032 and 0.045 micron
  • » Budget desktop CPU
  • » Quad core
  • » Up to 3.2 GHz
  • » Up to 4 MB L2 cache
  • » No L3 cache
  • » 64-bit
  • » SSE3, SSE4a
  • » Virtualization
Socket AM2+
Socket AM3
Socket FM1
A8-Series (K10)
  • » K10 microarchitecture
  • » 0.032 micron
  • » Budget/mid-class CPU
  • » Quad core
  • » Up to 3 GHz
  • » 4 MB L2 cache
  • » No L3 cache
  • » 64-bit
  • » Integrated GPU
  • » SSE3, SSE4a
  • » Virtualization
Socket FM1
E2-Series
  • » Low budget desktop CPU
  • » Dual core
  • » 2.4 GHz
A4-Series (K10)
  • » Dual core
  • » Up to 2.8 GHz
  • » 1 MB L2 cache
A6-Series (K10)
  • » Triple & Quad core
  • » Up to 2.7 GHz
A8-Series for Notebooks
  • » Mobile CPU
  • » Up to 2 GHz
  • » 4 MB L2 cache
A10-Series (Bulldozer)
  • » Bulldozer microarchitecture
  • » 0.032 micron
  • » Mid-class desktop CPU
  • » Quad core
  • » Up to 3.8 GHz
  • » 4 MB L2 cache
  • » No L3 cache
  • » 64-bit
  • » Integrated GPU
  • » AES, AVX, FMA instructions
  • » Virtualization
  • » Turbo Core 3.0
Socket FM2

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AMD recently launched their Trinity APUs for the desktop, with claims that the Piledriver CPU architecture would offer a 10-15% performance boost over Bulldozer, and the IGP will outperform Llano by a similar amount. We looked at several reviews to see how the performance of the top A10 and A8 APUs compare against the Llano A8 and A6 APUs, and against a similarly priced Intel Core i3-3220. Figures we provide in this article are a summary of benchmark results from around a dozen reviews.



Accelerated Processing Units can work together with discrete Radeon graphics cards, which for many graphics applications results in higher performance than the performance of the APU or the discrete GPU. This article lists limitations of this so called "Dual Graphics" technology, and provides a list of discrete graphics cards, recommended for use with A8-Series APUs.

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Type:
64-bit microprocessor
Technology (micron):
0.032
The number of cores:
4
Frequency (GHz):
2.4 - 3
L2 cache size (MB):
4
Sockets:
Socket FM1