AMD Athlon 860K Black Edition CPU Review

Introduction

When it comes to PC parts everybody loves a good budget performer. While it is nice to see the latest and most powerful technology strut its stuff, most of us can only afford something mid or low-end. 

We recently have seen a great Integrated GPU performance from AMD’s Kaveri APUs, but now that AMD has released a budget Quad core on the FM2+ platform and costs only £65, could we get better performance from thins plus a dedicated GPU for the price? 

Technical Specification

Simply put this is a A10-7850K without the integrated GPU, it has the same 4 Steamroller cores, 4MB of L2 cache, unlocked multiplier and TDP.

Compared to it’s popular Richland counterpart, the Athlon 760K, the 860K features the updated Steamroller core architecture, clock speeds lowered by 100MHz and a decrease in TDP of 95W. The 760K was a very popular CPU for budget gaming PCs over the last year, so lets hope the 860K can give gamers a new budget CPU option to combat the budget performance provided by Intel’s Pentium K.