Value seekers who aren't afraid to press the Precision Boost Overdrive button and have sufficient cooling should look to the A10-7870K for roughly equivalent performance to the A10-7890K, particularly if gaming factors heavily into the buying decision. Much of that performance advantage will be less noticeable when gaming at higher resolutions, or if you pair the processors with a lesser graphics card. That opens up much more aggressive boost behavior, on both single and multiple cores, that could widen the performance gap beyond what we see on the spec sheet.Īs we've seen, gaming remains an advantage for Intel, so if squeezing out every last frame is all you care about, Intel's processors are a good choice. The A10-7870K's PPT tops out at 95W, while the motherboard can pump up to 142W to the A10-7890K at peak performance.

That's an increase in base frequency and a bump to boost clocks, but the real advantage should lay in the higher Package Power Tracking (PPT) envelope, which is a measurement of the maximum amount of power delivered to the socket. As a result, Intel's commanding presence in the enthusiast space is threatened in a way we haven't seen in over a decade.Īs the higher-priced version of the A10-7870K, the A10-7890K has higher base and Boost frequencies of 4.1 and 4.3 GHz, respectively. Increased IPC improvements, along with the massive turbo boost of 4.3GHz mean that even in single core performance – long a weak link of AMD’s processors – comes within reaching distance of rival chips.ĪMD's Steamroller series has landed, upping the ante with Intel in its high-stakes game for desktop PC market dominance with a well-rounded lineup of new chips that push mainstream platforms to higher core counts and more raw compute than we've ever seen. But, there’s a lot more going on under the hood than just a smaller manufacturing node. The A10-7890K is based on the Godavari 28nm family and is part of the A10 series.Ī10-7890K is also the successor of AMD's last gen A10-6790K processor that was based on the Piledriver and 32nm process and was released in 2013.ĪMD A10 5th Generation, and the Steamroller architecture itself, is notable because it leads 28nm processors to the mainstream for the first time. With base clock at 4.1GHz, max speed at 4.3GHz, and a 95W power rating. It was released in 2016 with 4 cores and 4 threads. The A10-7890K is one of AMD's mid-range Desktop processors.

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