"The new APU is available now from select e-tailers and system vendors."
Why AMD APU's were not available with local retailers (offline) ?? AMD APUs are hard to find in any computer hardware shops these days.
because of this: The company boasted that an A8-7670K on its own will outperform an Intel Pentium G3258 paired with an Nvidia GT 730 GPU.
10 cores that can't even beat low end baseline cpu (Number of Cores
2) and a $60 discrete low end gpu. both that cpu and card can be bought for $7 less
and 10 cores can only manage to beat 3 cores. with 6 gpu cores that apu should stomp on any X50/X60 discrete card. with 4 cpu cores it should clobber every i3 and atleast be at the i5 threshold.
but it can only weakly squeeze out a win against a 2 core cpu and low end gpu that has a deliberately crippled AGP era Memory Bus 64-bit Memory Bandwidth 14.4GB/sec. the higher end gt730 which is $7 more has Memory Bus 128-bit
Memory Bandwidth 22.4GB/sec, but they did not list which they tested.
the next step up to a gt740 for $30 more you get Memory Bus128-bit Memory Bandwidth @ 80GB/sec which is double the performance as the gpu clock goes up 200-300 mhz and the shader clock goes up 600mhz.
apparently this APU can't beat a $7 gpu option that they can't list specs of which gt 730 gpu they tested. $30-$40 more kills this top of the line apu's reason for being.