Now Available: 2nd Generation AMD A-Series Processors.

There are virtually no limits with the accelerated performance of the 2nd generation AMD A-Series Processor.

Now you can get the best of all worlds. The performance of multicore CPU technology and the brilliance of premium AMD Radeon™ graphics technology – all in a single chip, at a great price!

A8 – Quad-core performance for gaming and working.

• Get more gaming performance out of your 2nd generation AMD A8 Accelerated Processor than Intel Core i5.¹
• Fast computing from 256 AMD Radeon™ cores 2.0 featuring DirectX® 11 capable graphics.
• Watch videos and multi-person chat in vivid HD with the AMD HD Media Accelerator.
• Accelerate your Windows® 8 experience.

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• Out of the box support for up to 4 monitors. 2
  • On average users may expect to achieve a 42% productivity gain when they add a second monitor to their system³
• Virtually uninterrupted video conferencing
• Fast Streaming
• Rich and Clear Multi-person video chat

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• Fast and Efficient multi-tasking with more CPU and GPU cores
  • Up to 736 GFLOPs or 736 billion calculations per second⁴
  • Up to 19% better system performance⁵
  • Up to 17% better graphics performance⁶
• Accelerated experiences - Microsoft® Office 2010, HTML5, Flash video
• NEW AMD Turbo Core technology 3.0 to boost performance
• AMD Start Now technology wakes the system from sleep mode in as few as two seconds⁹

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• Advanced security with hardware accelerated encryption, support for anti-theft and anti-virus software
• Helps maximize investment protection with graphics support for the next wave of software innovation
• DirectX®11 support for full Windows® 7 functionality and optimized for upcoming Microsoft® Windows® 8
• New AES instructions of the AMD A-Series APUs help enable up to 5.4X more performance on encryption and decryption Tasks than competing systems⁷
• Energy efficient APUs enable EPEAT® certification

Footnotes and configurations

1. Testing of Dirt Showdown @ 1920x1080 with 2xAA, 8xAF quality=high) AMD A8-5600K APU with AMD Radeon™ HD 7560D Graphics using 2x4GB DDR3-1866 with Windows® 7 64 bit, Catalyst 12.8 scores 24.4 fps. Intel Core i5 3570K with HD 4000 graphics, using 2x4GB DDR3-1600,Windows® 7 64 bit, and Driver 8.15.10.2716 scores 14.5 fps. TR-64
2. Average expected productivity gain as reported by respondents who were not using, but wanted to use, multiple displays. Jon Peddie Research "Special Report: Multi-Display Market and Consumer Attitudes," pp. 28-29
3. GFLOPs calculations developed by AMD performance labs measuring compute capacity for the AMD A10-5800K APU with AMD Radeon™ HD 7650D Graphics which is 736 GFLOPS. GFLOPs calculated using GFLOPs = CPU GFLOPs + GPU GFLOPs = CPU Core Freq. (3.8GHz) X Core Count (4) X 8 FLOPS + GPU Core Freq.(800MHz) X DirectX® 11 capable Shader Count (384) X 2 FLOPS. TRD-38
4. Testing conducted by AMD performance labs using PCMark7 benchmark, the AMD A8-5600K APU with AMD Radeon™ HD 7560D Graphics scored 3850 while the AMD A8-3850 APU with AMD Radeon™ HD 6550D Graphics scored 3226. All scores rounded to the nearest whole number. Test configurations: Pre-production engineering sample AMD A8-5600K APU with AMD Radeon™ HD 7560D Graphics using 2x4GB DDR3-1866 and a C300 SSD with Windows® 7 64 bit) on AMD "Annapurna" reference design. The AMD A8-3850 APU with AMD Radeon™ HD 6550D Graphics using 2x4GB DDR3-1600 and a C300 SSD with Windows® 7 64 bit. TRD-9
5. Testing conducted by AMD performance labs using 3DMark Vantage benchmark, the AMD A8-5600K APU with AMD Radeon™ HD 7560D Graphics scored 4933 while the AMD A8-3850 APU with AMD Radeon™ HD 6550D Graphics scored 4040. All scores rounded to the nearest whole number. Test configurations: Pre-production engineering sample AMD A8-5600K APU with AMD Radeon™ HD 7560D Graphics using 2x4GB DDR3-1866 and a C300 SSD with Windows® 7 64 bit on AMD "Annapurna" reference design. The AMD A8-3850 APU with AMD Radeon™ HD 6550D Graphics using 2x4GB DDR3-1600 and a C300 SSD with Windows® 7 64 bit. TRD-5
6. Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs that measured the time to resume from sleep mode as 1.38 seconds. Actual time to resume will vary based on operating system, APU model, driver, disk drive and memory speed. Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of 2/17/2012 on a "Annapurna" reference system configured with a Pre-production engineering sample AMD A10-5700K APU with AMD Radeon™ HD 7660D Graphics, 4GB DDR3-1600 running Windows® 7 SP1 64bit. TRD-20
7. Testing conducted by AMD performance labs using Trucrypt 7.0. The AMD A10-5800K APU with AMD Radeon™ HD 7660D Graphics scored 1843 MB/s while the Intel Core i3-2100 scored 289 MB/s. All scores rounded to the nearest whole number. Test configurations: AMD A10-5800K APU with AMD Radeon™ HD 7660D Graphics using 2x4GB DDR3-1600 with Windows® 7 64 bit based on the AMD "Annapurna" reference board. Intel Core i3-2120 with HD 2000 graphics on a H67, 2x4GB DDR3-1600 with Windows® 7 64-bit. TRD-33