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excellent everyone welcome back to Pauls hardware it is Computex season which means there's lots of product launches come out and whether you're talking your your haswell's your shields your gtx 780 med or i guess that's what we call AMD these days but what I actually have is what AMD has been working on them what they're releasing well right about now or at least whenever this video is going to come out that is their new Richland series of apu so this is going to be my first ever apu unboxing and i have the flagship of the line this is the AMD a10 6800 k so here we go with the apu unboxing again the 810 6800 k i'm going to be sort of rambling off some details about this product as i turn the box over in my hands and I'm sure eventually I'll actually take it out of the box as well but essentially what you have here from AMD is a quad core $150 MSE MSRP part and that gives you both CPU and the GPU on the same little processor and you can put together a very nice little system with this I've seen quite a few implementations whether you're talking about an HT PC will be talk you about a gaming system because this can actually handle games at decently high graphics levels especially if you're going to be playing at 1080p or below and the code name for this is Richland of course as you might notice in the title you also might notice it says 680 K on the top of the Box I'm I'm not really sure why everyone tells me it's 6800 K but for some reason the box is 680 K and I don't have an explanation for that but anyway it's quad core part code names Richland this is a refined version of the CPU architecture that they used in Trinity and that architecture more specifically was second-generation bulldozer which is also known as piledriver and I know Andy parts tend have a lot of different code names so to confuse of you a bit more the AI GPU that's in here is based on the Cayman GPU architecture which I believe originally came out in 2010 now apart from that Richlands refinement if you're talking about the the changeover from Trinity to Richland is going to provide some higher clock speeds it's also going to provide some lower power consumption you also notice you have dual graphics support down there at the bottom you can pair this up with an AMD Radeon HD 6000 series graphics card which I don't really see being done too often so I don't know it's it's it's I feel like your your better bet is going to be to buy a newer graphics card a 7000 series or maybe an 8000 series one so those are fully available and that's probably a better solution for you anyway here's your certificate of authenticity that you get in the box along with the processor actually I never really look at these when I get them out of the box let's uh take a look inside and see Wow okay this has gone back a long ways all the way back to socket 754 socket 940 just giving you example to pin layouts of those which is kind of interesting this is of course socket FM 2 which is not backwards compatible with FM 1 just to throw that out there also included in the box you do get a heat sink fan this is a really basic one that's just an aluminum heatsink you do get the clips on the side AMD is maintained the same CPU manic solution for a really long time which is nice because it's very Universal I also get some thermal paste pre-applied there at the bottom aluminum fins a fairly small fan it looks I think that's like maybe a 92 millimeter fan and then you also get a very brightly colored cable and it's 4 pin connector so you do have a PWM which is going to help the fan to always spin up and maintain reasonable speeds in relation to the AP use actual temperature but back to is talking a little bit more about Richland comparing the 1600 K Richland with the 5800 K Trinity the Richland 6800 K is going to have a four point one gigahertz based CPU clock 4.4 gigahertz max turbo CPU clock also you get a sticker right there should I should point that out sticker case bej put it on your on your case and I'm distract being distracted again here but a you might also notice the the plastic thing that the CPUs in those actually really really sturdy they design them very carefully so I feel like somebody told me at one point that you could run these over with like a car and the CPU would be okay I don't recommend trying that but it is there anyway back to the clock speeds base clock of 4.1 gigahertz turbo clock 4.4 GPU clock is 844 megahertz and compared to the 5800 K that gives you a 3.8 gigahertz base CPU clock 4.2 gigahertz turbo clock and 800 megahertz GPU so you can see they giving you about a 6 to 8% clock increase also one of the nice things is they've given you official ddr3 2133 support and actually pairing up an APU with some really fast memory is a great way to go so I check out higher speed memory also 100 watt TDP and the K means it's a black Edition so it's unlocked for overclocking performance wise this is going to be compared probably to mostly to lower end i3 and i-5 Ivy Bridge and Haswell CPUs and just based on a few benchmarks I've seen already essentially if you're looking at a serial benchmark or more more CPU intensive benchmark intel's is going to win when you're put in cpus head-to-head in the same price category if you're looking at parallel or GPU intensive benchmarks original is going to win just about every time because it does have a much stronger a GPU and intel for some reason chose not to include its Intel iris gt3 i GPU and most of their Haswell desktop parts some unless that part has an R on the end so that just basically means that AMD is going to retain the lead when you're comparing comparable AP use to Intel's CPUs when it comes to the AI GPU but that's going to wrap it up for this quick unboxing video guys once again we've been taking a closer look at the AMD a10 6800 K from their new richland series of AP use for the FM 2 socket I'm definitely looking forward to when we actually returned from Computex I'll be actually be able to have some time to play around with this particular APU I almost called a CPU and see what the performance is like so stay tuned for that will probably be covering it on Newegg TV possibly here as well I'm really not sure what's going to go on all I can see right now is Computex if you'd like to see more videos though be sure to subscribe to my youtube channel don't forget to like the video and we'll see you all next time