Friday, November 29th 2013
AMD Starts Selling A10-6790K Socket FM2 APU
AMD began selling the A10-6790K, a new socket FM2 APU based on the 32 nm "Richland" silicon. The chip is positioned between the A10-6700 and the A10-6800K, and is a notch below the latter. It comes with an unlocked base-clock multiplier, making overclocking a breeze. 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.
Source:
Akiba PC Hotline
19 Comments on AMD Starts Selling A10-6790K Socket FM2 APU
It's already at newegg, but right now it is $10 more than the A10-6800K. I'm sure that is just because it is new and the price will probably settle to about $110. Hopefully this means there will be a price cut on the A8-6600K since it is already at the $110 price point, so it wouldn't make much sense to keep both at the same price.
Also, about A8 6600K & Co price cuts:
fudzilla.com/home/item/33091-amd-cuts-apu-prices
www.kitguru.net/components/henry-butt/amd-vision-a10-6790k-apu-review/
With that said, I see no point of this chip. I would have rather seen Kaveri before Christmas...
My point was that Kaveri is FM2+, the title clearly says FM2, so just by reading the title you could tell his wasn't Kaveri. Plus the Kaveri processors will be the Ax-7000 series.