New AMD A‑Series Desktop Processors: Smart Choice for Everyday Computing, Powerful eSports Engine and Ready for Windows 10

Mit der neu­en A8-7670K APU ergänzt AMD das Port­fo­lio der Desk­top-Pro­zes­so­ren der A‑Serie mit einem Pro­dukt, das die ener­gie­ef­fi­zi­en­te Rechen­leis­tung einer AMD CPU mit der Gra­fik­leis­tung des AMD Rade­on™ Chip­sat­zes kom­bi­niert. Der erschwing­li­che Pro­zes­sor sorgt für eine aus­ge­zeich­ne­te Nut­zer­er­fah­rung unter Win­dows 10 und ist sowohl für den All­tags­ge­brauch als auch für Online-Games im eSports-Bereich geeignet.

— New AMD A8-7670K APU deli­vers an excel­lent expe­ri­ence and value for today’s modern workloads and Micro­soft® Win­dows® 10 support —

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — July 20, 2015 AMD (NASDAQ: AMD), the com­pa­ny who­se tech­no­lo­gy helps power the Micro­soft® Xbox One™ and the Sony® Play­Sta­ti­on 4™, today intro­du­ced the newest addi­ti­on to its A‑Series line of desk­top pro­ces­sors. The A8-7670K APU pro­vi­des a superb expe­ri­ence for Micro­soft Win­dows 10, main­stream workloads, and eSports online gaming.

The A8-7670K is an afforda­ble APU that com­bi­nes the ener­gy effi­ci­ent pro­ces­sing power of an AMD CPU with the pixel pushing power of AMD Rade­on™ gra­phics (GPU) in one con­ve­ni­ent packa­ge. Users can easi­ly mul­ti­task modern workloads and stream video in Win­dows® 10 or mow down their enemies in popu­lar eSports online gam­ing titles such as Coun­ter Strike®: Glo­bal Offen­si­ve. Powered by 10 com­pu­te cores (4 CPU + 6 GPU)[i], the A8-7670K APU pro­vi­des the pro­ces­sing and gra­phics capa­bi­li­ty bud­get con­scious main­stream users need today.

AMD takes gre­at stri­des to deli­ver inno­va­ti­ve tech­no­lo­gy that pro­vi­des the per­for­mance and con­ve­ni­ence cus­to­mers need today and tomor­row. The AMD A8-7670K APU is no excep­ti­on. Our newest APU pro­vi­des a smooth user expe­ri­ence and is engi­nee­red for Win­dows 10 and eSports online gam­ing,” said Kevin Len­sing, Sr. Direc­tor, Cli­ent Busi­ness Unit at AMD.

The new addi­ti­on of the AMD A8-7670K APU allows us to deli­ver more opti­ons for dis­cer­ning main­stream PC buy­ers,” said Zack Shutt, Vice Pre­si­dent at Xidax. “AMD’s latest dri­ver and fea­ture sup­port allow incre­di­ble new ent­ry points for impres­si­ve gam­ing tech­no­lo­gies such as Free­Sync™ and Vir­tu­al Super Resolution.”

Revo­lu­tio­na­ry Archi­tec­tu­re for Today’s Modern Workloads

  • Ener­gy effi­ci­ent and con­ve­ni­ent: AMD APUs com­bi­ne the power of a CPU and dedi­ca­ted gra­phics (GPU) in one chip
  • Excep­tio­nal per­for­mance on today’s modern workloads with 10 com­pu­te cores1 (4 CPU run­ning up to 3.9GHz + 6 GPU run­ning at 757MHz)
  • Expe­ri­ence new levels of per­for­mance and effi­ci­en­cy with Hete­ro­ge­neous Sys­tem Archi­tec­tu­re (HSA) which allows the CPU and GPU to work tog­e­ther in sup­port­ed appli­ca­ti­ons by quick­ly and auto­ma­ti­cal­ly divi­ding and direc­ting the right tasks toward the appro­pria­te cores

Acce­le­ra­te Win­dows 10

  • Be pre­pared for the future; the AMD A8-7670K is desi­gned to deli­ver a pre­mi­um Win­dows® 10 expe­ri­ence with ten com­pu­te cores (4 CPU + 6 GPU)1
  • Smooth video play­back of movies and TV with hard­ware-based acceleration
  • Boost per­for­mance in the new Micro­soft® Edge web brow­ser with full gra­phics acce­le­ra­ti­on for HTML5 and WebGL
  • Help pro­tect sen­si­ti­ve data with hard­ware acce­le­ra­ted encryp­ti­on and decryp­ti­on when using Micro­soft® Bitlocker®
  • Easi­ly stream Xbox One™ games to your PC
  • Expe­ri­ence con­tent streams wit­hout bumps and hic­cups for smoot­her per­for­mance with AMD Quick Stream tech­no­lo­gy which allots more band­width to your hig­hest prio­ri­ty appli­ca­ti­ons[ii]

Powerful eSports Online Gam­ing Experience

  • Enjoy smooth 1080p gam­ing on some of the world’s most popu­lar games with powerful inte­gra­ted Rade­on R7 graphics
  • Nati­ve H.264 video enco­ding empowers the AMD Gam­ing Evol­ved appli­ca­ti­on allo­wing users to effort­less­ly record their gameplay
  • Enjoy impro­ved image qua­li­ty when gam­ing at lower reso­lu­ti­ons with Vir­tu­al Super Reso­lu­ti­on (VSR)
  • Enable advan­ced gam­ing tech­no­lo­gies that impro­ve per­for­mance and visu­al fide­li­ty with sup­port for mul­ti-threa­ded APIs inclu­ding DirectX® 12, Vul­kan™, and Mantle
  • Expe­ri­ence more rea­lism and grea­ter fields of view in sup­port­ed games with AMD Eye­fi­ni­ty[iii] mul­ti-dis­play technology
  • Gamers can put an end to chop­py game­play and bro­ken frames with flu­id, arti­fact-free per­for­mance at vir­tual­ly any frame­ra­te with AMD Free­Sync™ tech­no­lo­gy[iv]

Pri­cing and Availability

  • The A8-7670K APU is available now at sel­ect e‑tailers and par­ti­ci­pa­ting sys­tem vendors
  • Expe­ri­ence smart value at the sug­gested pri­ce (SEP) of  $117.99 USD

Sup­port­ing Resources 

About AMD

For more than 45 years, AMD has dri­ven inno­va­ti­on in high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting, gra­phics, and visua­liza­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies ― the buil­ding blocks for gam­ing, immersi­ve plat­forms, and the dat­a­cen­ter. Hundreds of mil­li­ons of con­su­mers, lea­ding For­tu­ne 500 busi­nesses, and cut­ting-edge sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch faci­li­ties around the world rely on AMD tech­no­lo­gy dai­ly to impro­ve how they live, work, and play. AMD employees around the world are focu­sed on buil­ding gre­at pro­ducts that push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on about how AMD is enab­ling today and inspi­ring tomor­row, visit the AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) web­site, blog, Face­book and Twit­ter pages.

[i] Learn more at www.amd.com/computecores

[ii] Learn more at www.amd.com/featuredetails

[iii] AMD Eye­fi­ni­ty tech­no­lo­gy sup­ports up to four Dis­play­Po­rt moni­tors with sel­ect AMD A‑Series APUs. Sup­port­ed dis­play quan­ti­ty, type and reso­lu­ti­on vary by APU model and sys­tem design; con­firm spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­ons with the sys­tem manu­fac­tu­rer befo­re purcha­se. To enable more than two dis­plays, or mul­ti­ple dis­plays from a sin­gle out­put, addi­tio­nal hard­ware such as Dis­play­Po­rt-rea­dy moni­tors or Dis­play­Po­rt 1.2 MST-enab­led hubs may be requi­red.  A maxi­mum of two acti­ve adap­ters is recom­men­ded. See www.amd.com/eyefinityfaq for full details.

[iv] Free­Sync is an AMD tech­no­lo­gy desi­gned to eli­mi­na­te stut­te­ring and/or tearing in games and vide­os by locking a display’s refresh rate to the frame­ra­te of the gra­phics card.  Requi­res Moni­tor, AMD Rade­on™ gra­phics and/or AMD A‑Series APU com­pli­ant with Dis­play­Po­rt™ Adap­ti­ve-Sync 1.2 (or newer).  AMD Cata­lyst™ dri­ver 15.2 Beta (or newer) requi­red. Adap­ti­ve refresh rates vary by dis­play; check with your moni­tor manu­fac­tu­rer for spe­ci­fic capa­bi­li­ties. Only sel­ect AMD Rade­on GPUs and A‑Series APUs sup­port­ed; see www.amd.com/freesync for full details

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