Testseek.com have collected 160 expert reviews of the AMD A8-3850 2.9GHz Socket FM1 and the average rating is 82%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD A8-3850 2.9GHz Socket FM1.
July 2011
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The editors liked
The new AMD A8-3850 desktop chip offers strong budget gaming and multicore performance at a reasonable price
The editors didn't like
AMD's new chip doesn't outperform its Intel equivalent on many standard programs
Abstract: Benchmarking 86 CPUs takes a while. After long last, though, we have 51 models from AMD and 35 from Intel tested in our current suite. If you want to know how your processor sizes up to its competition, you'll find plenty of comparison data inside! 86 C...
Well as we noticed we were not able to overclock this unit at all really. A few MHz was all we could push out of our sample, this doesn’t mean however that this model does not overclock at all because I have seen some nice results on other sites. The ...
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Published: 2012-08-23, Author: Scott , review by: Techreport.com
Abstract: As you may know, a while back, we came to some difficult realizations about the validity of our methods for testing PC gaming performance. In my article Inside the second: A new look at game benchmarking, we explained why the widely used frames-per-second...
Abstract: This time we'd like to offer you the summarized test results of as many as 71 processors. This generally marks the end of the year, not the end of another test method's life cycle (like the last time). We believe this summary contains all important pro...
Published: 2011-09-21, Author: The , review by: hardwarebbq.com
Abstract: AMD India sent one of the A8 series APU (Accelerated Processing Units) with an 6550HD graphics.With the default clock speed at 2.9GHz and with the brand new FM1 socket type, lets see how the Desktop APU does the job.1. Introduction 2. About A- Series Pro...
Low cost of the platform, Connectivity (graphics, USB3, SATA3), Reasonable power consumption, GPUperformance
To wrap the performance figures up, it's no surprise that the new APU can't match the CPU-oomph of the Phenoms and higher spec Intel-models, but that's not really the point, either. The thing is, these A-series APUs are never even meant for high perfo...
