AMD A8-7650k Kaveri APU Review

Test System and Methods

Before we delve into any testing we would like to take this opportunity to overview our test system.

Test System

• Motherboard – Asus Crosshair Ranger A88x FM2+
• RAM – 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 1866Mhz Cruical Ballistix
• CPU Cooler – Thermaltake Water 3.0 with Gelid GC-Extreme
• Power Supply – BeQuiet Power Zone 1000W
• Main Storage Drive – Crucial M550 512GB
• Chassis – Lian Li T80 Test Bench
• Displays – U2868PQU 4K
• Operating System – Windows 8.1 Pro 64 Bit

Games Used

• Bioshock Infinite
• Tomb Raider

Test Software

• 3DMark – available here
• AIDA 64 Engineer – available here
• Cinebench – available here
• Compubench – available here
• CPUID HWMonitor – available here
• CPU-Z – available here
• Handbrake – available here
• Luxmark – available here
• Prime95 – available here
• SiSoft Sandra Engineer – available here
• WPrime – available here