The original A-Series APU line-up didn’t feature any enthusiast-targeted products, but AMD quickly reacted to the A-Series’ mostly favorable reception with a new flagship, dubbed the A8-3870K ...

With so little between it and the A8-3850, the A8-3870K performed almost identically in most of our benchmarks. The variations were more obvious in the more granular tests such as WPrime, where ...

But that leaves one feature that we haven't discussed yet which bring us down in AMD's favour. That feature is Asymetrical Crossfire – the ability to use both the A8-3870K's graphics and a low ...

Let’s get what’s probably going to be the most controversial decision out of the way first: The heart of our sub-$500 Windows 8 system is an AMD A8-3870K APU, or Accelerated Processing Unit ...

We observed the power draw readings during this test and took the peak level seen. Note: the AMD processor was tested in an ATX motherboard, while the Intel chip was tested in a micro-ATX board.

Total System Power Consumption The A8-3870K's idle power consumption was relatively low when compared to Intel's offerings and the older AMD platform (which requires a discrete or motherboard GPU).

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Here you can see the AMD A8-3870K Black Edition series APU. Pretty much as big as any other Phenom or Athlon II processor you have seen. This one has a Northbridge and a GPU merged into it though.

There are three series of Llano APUs (A4/A6/A8), today we test the 3870K processor ... Intel places more focus on raw CPU performance, AMD places more focus on the multi-media experience ...