Conclusions

Performance:
Quality/price ratio:
Overall:

The new AMD Llano A6-3650 confirms what introduced with the A8-3850, or that the proposed new architecture and platform from AMD is definitely winning.

The performance is pretty good especially in the graphics side, where the HD 6530D integrated IGP turns out to be very similar to her mayor sister in the high end solution for FM1 Socket.

However, the slight price difference between this solution and the most efficient A8-3850, just 20 €, does tip the balance in favor of the latter and we feel to recommend the purchase of the APU with HD 6550D, as it turned out, in some tests, much more powerful of the A6-3650 solution.

That said, we think that this architecture and this platform is perfect for medium to low end systems that do not demand the maximum performance, but they do not miss anything.

PROs

• Low price
• Balanced consumption
• GPU performance
• Good margin for overclocking

CONs

• CPU performance is not brilliant

We thank AMD for the sample supplied to us.

Angelo Ciardiello

Translated by Marco Comerci