AMD Llano Desktop A8-3850 review: banging on Intel's door

High-performance gaming

The following numbers have been obtained by placing a high-end Radeon HD 6950 2GB into the PCIe x16 slot, to see how the A8-3850 functions as a gaming machine.

There's enough CPU grunt to provide a decent games-playing experience, evinced by the throughput at the low-resolution tests. Increase the image-quality settings to, say, 1080p and the GPU becomes the primary bottleneck.