APU Features

With both the CPU and GPU portions sharing the same memory interface, system memory speeds are important. AMD has released several different speeds of AMD Radeon Memory to go with your APU. Ranging from 1600 MHz to 2133 MHz, another new improvement then are higher memory speeds out of the box with new AMD Elite A-Series APUs. The AMD A10-6800K, for example, supports memory speeds of 2133 MHz to allow your unlocked APU to perform the best it can with, hopefully, an improvement in memory overclocking, which has been very good at the extreme high-end but not quite so good for 24/7 use.


AMD gave me some slides that depict the performance increase offered by using 2133 MHz memory. I've included these for you to take a look at, and general testing does show the increases to net a noticeably gain.


As with other AMD APUs, the AMD Elite A-Series APUs support Dual Graphics, although the list of officially supported cards has not changed in the information AMD gave me. Some TPU members managed to get the AMD Radeon 7750 to work with an A10-5800K, but I couldn't give it a try since I don't have one on hand. I've again included AMD's own slide showing Dual Graphics support for those with any remaining questions on the topic. It's clearly possible for AMD to change such support in the future, but the rumored "GCN" GPU core change has also failed to materialize, making me skeptical of such support coming soon. I was also in touch with them on June 4th and no such mention was made.