AMD A8-7670K Now Official

Earlier this week, AMD took the wraps off on the latest addition to the “Godavari” accelerated processing unit (APU) lineup, the unlocked AMD A8-7670k.

Aimed at budget-conscious PC users, the new A8-7670k packs a total of 10 compute cores which consist of a quartet Steamroller cores with a maximum clock speed of 3.9GHz and a six-core Radeon R7 integrated GPU.

As far as compute performance in concerned, AMD’s new accelerated processing unit is geared to go up against the Intel Core i3-4160 which is in the same price point ($110-120 range). Based on their internal testing the A8-7670K outperforms its rival on all three categories listed on AMD’s presentation.

On the graphics side of things, AMD pitted their new brainchild against another budget-centric offering from Intel, the G3258, with an accompanying NVidia GeForce GT 730. Once again, the A8-7670K came out on top by providing better frame rates on all online games that were ran during AMD’s internal testing.

AMD A8-7670K specs:
Microarchitecture: Steamroller
Processor Family: Godavari
FM2+ Socket
A88X, A78 & A55 Chipset
3.6 GHz Base Core Clock, 3.9 GHz Turbo Frequency
Quad-core processor with four (4) threads
L1 Cache:
* 2 x 96 KB 3-way set associative shared instruction caches
* 4 x 16 KB 4-way set associative data caches
L2 Cache: 2 x 2 MB 16-way set associative shared caches
Support for dual-channel 2133MHz memory modules
Integrated R7 Series GPU, 757MHz Base Frequency
384 Shader Cores, supports up to 4 displays
95W TDP
Support for DirectX 11.2, DirectX 12 and Mantle APIs
Vulkan, AMD TrueAudio, VCE 2.0 & UVD 4.0
Virtual Super Resolution, FreeSync & EyeFinity

The suggested price (SEP) of the new AMD A8-7670K is $117.99 and is now available on online retailers and participating system vendors.