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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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GPGPU, plus power-draw

LuxMark 2.0 is the first time A8-5600K 'Trinity' falls behind A8-3870 'Llano'.

Power-draw figures are lower than the A10-5800K's, which shares the same TDP rating, but higher than we'd like. Oh, and by the way, both the 2D and 3D loads were exactly the same. We suspect that it's our test Gigabyte motherboard that's giving inflated figures by using an above-average VCore when set to 'Auto'. We'll know more for sure when another A85 board goes on the test-bench later this week.