APU Reviews: Affordable AMD A8-3870K and A6-3500

These two AMD processors are no ordinary CPUs! In fact, they're APUs, which means they effectively have a built-in graphics processor.



A step up from the A8-3850, the AMD A8-3870K APU has a slightly higher clock speed, at 3 GHz compared with 2.9 GHz for the lower-end model. The rest of the tech specs are identical, however, with four cores, no Turbo mode and no alternative to Intel's Hyper-Threading.

As a 'lite' version of the A6-3650, the AMD A6-3500 APU has three cores rather than four cores and the clock speed is reduced from 2.6 GHz to 2.1 GHz per core. Like other models in AMD's FM1 socket series, this processor doesn't have a Turbo mode or an equivalent of Intel's Hyper-Threading.

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