AMD A10 6800K Integrated graphics good for gaming?

[Sharaf20]

is A10 6800K integrated Graphics of radeon is better for playing almost every game in low settings if i have a Ram of 8GB ? Is it better even than the built in graphics of Intel I3,I5 and I7 or NVIDIA dedicated normal graphics?

 

[CTurbo]

It is fine for 720p, but not really very good for 1080p. You could probably play a lot of games on low settings @ 1080p, but don't expect too much. Yes it's much better than any Intel integrated graphics.

 

[CTurbo]

Running fast RAM in dual channel does help out a lot. 1866mhz at least. So either 2x2GB sticks or 2x4GB sticks of RAM would be fine.

 

[ingtar33]

an a10 will have far superior graphic performance to ANY intel graphics solution (even vs iris pro, as intel hd graphics drivers are a horrible no matter what fps it's kicking out)

That a10-6800k will be roughly in line with an nvidia 640gtx (a little slower actually)

Understand the onchip graphics on an APU is 100% bottlenecked by your ram SPEED (not the ram size). the faster the ram, and the lower the CAS, the stronger the onchip graphics gets. so what you're looking for is FAST ram.... something like ddr3 2133/2400 with a 9-9-9-27 timing would be ideal (not much of that out there)

As for the ram size, understand no apu is fast enough to make use of more then 1gb of ram...

 

[CTurbo]

As for the ram size, understand no apu is fast enough to make use of more then 1gb of ram...

That's why 4GB RAM in a 2x2GB setup would be fine. But keep in mind that you can allocate more RAM to it in BIOS. I think it comes with 512MB dedicated, but you can raise it to 1GB which I recommend. You can also overclock the igpu. It comes stock at 844mhz but you can overclock it to over 1000mhz which should give you a pretty big boost. 2133mhz is the fastest RAM the 6800k officially supports.

 

[jaguarskx]

The A10-6800k has the integrated Radeon HD 8650D graphics core. It's performance is equivalent to a dedicated Radeon HD 6670 DDR3 RAM if you have DDR3-2133 RAM installed. The Radeon HD 6670 DDR3's performance is basically half way between a Radeon HD 5570 and HD 5670 graphics card.

While, the Radeon HD 8650D is considered powerful for an integrated graphics core (iGPU), it is still fairly weak compared to a dedicated graphics card. The R7 graphics core in the A10-7850k APU is currently the most powerful iGPU available. However, it is only 10% more powerful than the Radeon HD 8650D which means it is still less powerful than a Radeon HD 5670 dedicated graphics card which was released back in 2010 for $99 I think.

 

[jaguarskx]

That a10-6800k will be roughly in line with an nvidia 640gtx (a little slower actually)

The Radeon HD 8650D is actually a lot slower than the nVidia GT 640 which is comparable to the dedicated Radeon HD 6670 DDR5 graphics card.

The DDR3 version of the Radeon HD 6670 only has about 75% the performance of the DDR5 version.

 

[ingtar33]

not to get into an argument over an igpu... but with fast, low timing ram and a good overclock that a10-6800k will perform somewhere between a 6670 with ddr3 ram and one with gdrr5. I've seen some rather impressive performance out of the 6800k igpu. Remember, with the jump from the 5800k to the 6800k, AMD improved the performance of the igpu so much that the stock a10-6700 matched an overclocked 5800k's igpu performance.

what you say IS right about the 5800k though.

 

[CTurbo]

I have an A10-6800k. I know what it's capable of. It's a little more powerful than the GT555m in my XPS laptop. When my RAM is running at over 2200mhz and the HD 8670D is overclocked to around 1060mhz, it's almost as powerful as the GT 640 and HD 6670ddr5. It's at least in the same league, as all 3 handle 720p pretty well, but none of them are any good @ 1080p. I think it's more powerful than people give it credit for.

It was never meant to be a 1080p gaming solution.

 

[Jason H.]

is A10 6800K integrated Graphics of radeon is better for playing almost every game in low settings if i have a Ram of 8GB ? Is it better even than the built in graphics of Intel I3,I5 and I7 or NVIDIA dedicated normal graphics?

Ok lets put this into perspective, the A10 is far superior over Intel YES.. but if your looking to game.. I would NOT suggest an APU.. the A10 (or all the A series) are FM2 ports.. which is a dead end for upgrade compatibility because Im ALMOST positive that the best processor you can get for a FM2 port IS the A10 so that would most likely be the last upgrade you could perform CPU wise to your system unless you upgrade your MOBO. I am currently running the A8 strictly as a processor and I have the GTX 750 as my dedicated GPU. I tried playing some games on the A8's built in graphics card only to find out that its actually not that great.. in fact.. in my opinion... the old and out of date "Geforce GT 520" runs better than the A8's built in graphics. Of course the A10's graphics will be faster and more reliable to give a decent quality to performance balance but for it to work properly you MUST have at least dual channel ram because APU's run of system memory and without decent memory the APU will lag the entire system. I would honestly suggest getting a dedicated video card for your PC. Im sure what your looking for, will not be found in the A10's graphics.. but if your just doing light gaming like Leagues or SOME free online stuff then it should be fine, but dont expect to go into a game like Blacklight Retribution and be able to turn everything past medium. Hope this helps. Have a great day

 

[unextremegamer]

But keep in mind that you can allocate more RAM to it in BIOS. I think it comes with 512MB dedicated, but you can raise it to 1GB which I recommend.

I have a gigabyte A85x-up4, 8gb Dual Channel G Skill 1600 OC'd to 1866, CAS 11,9,9,27 and I am confused on how to increase the allocated ram to my 6800k. Im not exactly having any problems running the games I want to play, but any performance increase is appreciated. I have searched here as well as other places but cannot seem to find any info on this so if it is something that you have done before I would appreciate any info you had.

 

[ingtar33]

But keep in mind that you can allocate more RAM to it in BIOS. I think it comes with 512MB dedicated, but you can raise it to 1GB which I recommend.

I have a gigabyte A85x-up4, 8gb Dual Channel G Skill 1600 OC'd to 1866, CAS 11,9,9,27 and I am confused on how to increase the allocated ram to my 6800k. Im not exactly having any problems running the games I want to play, but any performance increase is appreciated. I have searched here as well as other places but cannot seem to find any info on this so if it is something that you have done before I would appreciate any info you had.

its in the bios. you'll have to go to the advanced tab. your igpu settings will be somewhere around the northbridge/pci-e settings. Its different on every motherboard but you should be able to hunt down the igpu's ram alocation. I've not played with a gigabyte board and an apu, but i think stock setting is 1/4 of your total system ram. so it should be 2gb on your system already. but hunt it down in the bios to double check.