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Review: AMD A8-5600K

by Tarinder Sandhu on 18 October 2012, 12:00 3.5

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Memory matters, low-load tests

Run with the same memory as on A10-5800K - DDR3-1,600, 9-9-9-24-1T - there's no surprise to see near-identical numbers in the bandwidth and latency tests.

Remember how we said that the two K-designated chips' CPU sub-sections are almost the same? There's only a few per cent difference in the single-threaded PiFast numbers.

And having hardware-accelerated AES functionality is certainly a boon in the TrueCrypt test.