Reviewers Liked
- Decent quad core CPU performance
- Great gaming performance for integrated GPU
- FM2 platform supports next upgrade of CPUs
- Can easily Crossfire with lowend AMD GPU
- Excellent integrated graphics performance
- Adequate CPU horsepower for the price
- Much improved graphics performance over previous model
- Competes well against similarly priced Intel Core i3 CPUs with weaker integrated graphics
- Unlocked for overclocking
- Excellent and affordable entry 3D rendering power
- Decent expected iGPU clocking with all three of my chips managing a 25% or greater frequency increase
- Low platform price
- Piledriver CPU core design
- Support for up to two VGAs in CrossfireX
- Discrete level 7660D graphics
- CPU performance on par with Ivy Bridge i33220
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Thermal rating still high compared to Intel Ivy Bridge Core i3
- Modern DX11 based games not easily playable at 1080p
- AMD is leaving the performance race all to Intel
- New motherboard needed
- Unlocked multiplier doesn't translate into good overclocking
- CPU-specific performance doesn't get as much of a boost as graphics
- New FM2 socket means previous-gen AMD APU owners will need a new motherboard
- Same maximum TDP as FM1 products
- Perhaps a bit late to the market with laptop grade parts already for sale
- No compatibility with previous FM1 products, be it boards or chips
- "Low" but adequate CPU Performance will not appeal to some
- No backwards compatibility with FM1
- Late market entry
- No Native Virtu MVP support
- You can run two Discrete GPUs, but can't pair those two with the APU graphics
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