Although AMD officially launched the new Kaveri APUs with A10-7850K flagship, most information regarding the performance, other than what we had a chance to see in AMD slides, is held off until 14th of January, when the NDA for Kaveri APUs will be lifted. Thankfully, we now have some first performance preview numbers from PugetSystems.com comparing the flagship Kaveri APU with A10-6800K and Intel's Core i5-4430 CPU.

In case you missed it earliery, the A10-7850K is the flagship Kaveri APU from AMD and features four Streamroller CPU cors, 4MB of L2 cache and works at 3.7GHz base and 4.0GHz Turbo CPU clocks. It comes with a GPU which features 8 Compute Units, or simply 512 Stream processors. The GPU works at 654MHz base and 720MHz GPU boost clocks. The A10-7850K APU is fully unlocked, has support for DDR3-2133 memory and has a 95W TDP.

According to first performance numbers, including games like Batman: Arkham City, Alien vs. Predator, Just Cause 2, Hitman: Absolution, as well as Unigine Heaven Pro 4.0, PC Mark 08, Cinebench R15 and GeekBench 3, it appears that the Kaveri APUs will offer around 10 to 20 percent performance gain when compared to the Richland A10-6800K, while it leaves the Intel's Core i5-4430 CPU well behind in all gaming scenarios. Of course, Intel still holds its ground when it comes to CPU performance but overall performance, especially in gaming, is definitely on AMD's side.

Of course, we will wait for official reviews which should be out on 14th of January before we give our final judgment. In case you missed it earlier, AMD will only launch two Kaveri APUs for now, including the A10-7850K and the A10-7700K, priced at US $173 and US $152, while the rest of the Kaveri APU lineup is expected later in Q1 2014.



Source: via Wccftech.com.