Recently, we have devoted much attention to the APU, which is one of the largest inovations that AMD has introduced to the IT industry. Placing a serious graphics system inside a processor is the great success of this company wich dosn't hide their pride about this product, and with a good reason. True, the concept is not new, because Intel has earlier presented almost the same thing, except for the fact that the northbridge is not integrated in their process.
However, the APU is by far the better solution due to the fact that, depending on the model, inside it you'll find the graphics that will satisfy your hunger for gaming, while with Intel HD graphics you'll be to be sentenced to frame rate level of powerpoint presentations and on washed out textures because of lack of support for half of modern technologies.
In translation, Intel HD graphics can be used for "first aid", and in that sense represents a good and efficient solution, but if you have any ambition of decent gameing experience on an integrated computer, APU will be your first choice.
Needless complication ...
AMD is a company that knows how to make a good product and it has repeatedly shown that, however when it comes to issues of product labeling, some one slacks in that departman a big time. Probably you have noticed that in addition to the APUs beginning marked with the markings very similar to the Cortex processors, like in example A8, A6
and A4 (and like Audi cars - Pr. Out.), the second part of the label is almost the same as labels of previous generation of graphics cards: to be precise - Radeon HD3000 series.
This combination of labels is hardly comprehensible and if we have hard time of "geting" sens of all of markings, we fear even to think of how will average users cope it. The suffix K is popular with Intel's "unlocked" processor, those with unfixed multiplier, and with a similar motivation this suffix have been added on A8-3870K model. Either way, AMD A8-3870K has not undergone any significant changes in relation to the A8-3850, instead
it represents a classic refreshment of the offerment, and isn't a real novelty. Anyway, the suffix "K" in marking means that the multiplier is unlocked, wich increase the possibility of processors overclocking, while at the same time overclocking limits of the GPU part have been significantly increased in comparsation to conventional models.
