I have the opportunity to pick up an new AMD APU at quite a good price. I am however somewhat of two minds as to which to choose. Heatsink will likely be a Mini Ninja as I have a NIB one on the shelf.
A10-5800K - 3.8GHz CPU, 800MHz GPU, 100W TDP
or
A10-5700 - 3.4GHz CPU, 760MHz GPU, 65W TDP
The old tradeoff - power vs performance.
Opinions welcome.
Which APU
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Re: Which APU
TDP is a limit.
It depends on what you're going to do with it, but unless you let the APU run at full load for hours, I don't think you'd notice the difference in power consumption.
You can always lower the clock speed in the 5800K, but you can never unlock the locked 5700.
It depends on what you're going to do with it, but unless you let the APU run at full load for hours, I don't think you'd notice the difference in power consumption.
You can always lower the clock speed in the 5800K, but you can never unlock the locked 5700.