AMD A10-5700 Trinity Desktop APU - Going Back for Seconds

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Despite its reduced 65W TDP power envelope, the A10-5700 carries the same Radeon HD 7660D graphics core that runs at a slightly lower GPU clock of 760MHz. Despite the processor's lower operating frequencies for both the CPU and GPU portions of the APU, we've witnessed that its integrated graphics performance is still in the same class as the A10-5800K and outpacing all of the competition by a large degree. In essence, the APU extends the appeal of the A10 series of desktop APUs to the same target audience of that of its unlocked brethren, the A10-5800K.

Overall, the A10-5700 is a decent mainstream 'quad-core' APU, but without flexible overclocking capabilities, it's unlikely to appeal to tweakers who seek to eke out any possible performance gains out of a processor. When compared against the A10-5800K, its performance is in-line with our initial expectations due to its discounted CPU base clock speed as well as its stated Turbo clock speed of up to 4GHz. As a bonus, it did manage to pull off some surprising wins over the higher-end unlocked APU during our Blu-ray playback CPU utilization test as well as for the Memories test suite in the PCMark Vantage benchmark.

With its reduced price point of S$136, it translates to a discount of about 25% off the A10-5800K. In a nutshell, the AMD A10-5700 is ideal for those who aren't thinking of overclocking and yet would like to obtain performance levels somewhat similar to the A10-5800K - especially with regards to integrated graphics performance. At such a price point, this means a bundle price of an appropriate board and the A10-5700 can be as low as just S$250. This makes it far more attractive than the Intel counterparts if raw processing throughput isn't really going to be missed. As we've seen, AMD is all out to improve the immediate experiential aspects of using a system for mainstream users and we think the AMD Trinity APU might just do the trick.