Power Consumption
The memory allowed the system to operate closer to its fuller potential by removing bottlenecks so unsurprisingly it consumed a little more power. I was surprised to see that despite the GPU attaining virtually all of the extra performance from the faster memory it was the CPU that added the extra power consumption. I’m not quite sure why this was the case.
great work there fella, a good in depth look at kaveri, and good luck with the overclocking, I found it hard, but that was on an FM1 chipset, with a 1600mhz kit, looking at this report, seems I should have went for a 1866 or 2133 kit, then tried to overclock, thanks for the info, and the time and effort put into these kaveri reports, Cheers !
Great article. I wasn’t sure how much memory was too much or too little with the new chips. Also thanks for including a page looking at the Dual Graphics impact.
Would have been a much better article if you would have also included overclocking… of both CPU, iGPU and RAM… While for gaming, something like 4-4,4GHz would have been enough, reaching 900+ MHz on the iGPU and going above 2400MHz on the RAM would have been amazing. 2400 and above might not matter at stock, but when you manage to go to the 1020MHz preset or above on the iGPU… then I’m pretty sure the memory limitations would start to matter a lot more again.
A bit late…but we did test with 2400MHz and an overclocked iGPU here:
http://www.eteknix.com/amd-kaveri-a10-7850k-overclocking-unleashing-gcns-potential/all/1/
We didn;’t overclock the CPU at the same time because doing so will cause the iGPU to thermal/power throttle even when turning APM off.
Kingston 8gb Hyperx Fury 1866mhz , A10-7850K, Asus GT610 2gb ddR3 Graphics card,
asus A88X-Gamer FM2+ Intex 450 wat Smps
can i do below activity in this configuration
AMD Kaveri A10 7850K APU Overclocked… To 4.7 GHz
please guide me
thanks a lot. really helpful.