AMD Richland A10-6800K and A10-6700 APU Review

Final Thoughts

Overall I am pretty impressed with the new Richland chips. They offer plenty of CPU power for anything your average user would throw at it, and even has enough GPU power to do some gaming. You can pair it with an affordable motherboard and you have a fairly capable system on your hands. The real benefits come from its expansion capabilities though. You can start off with just a chip, motherboard, and some cheap RAM, start overclocking to get some free performance, slap a dedicated GPU and faster RAM in, and suddenly you have a serious machine.

The bottom line is that these AMD APUs are affordable, capable, and expandable which is really everything you can ask for. You will never be able to get the performance of a high-end chip from them, but for someone who is on a budget and would like to get something decent now and build it up down the road, this really is the perfect solution. For what these chips were designed for, they do it well.