Two weeks ago AMD launched the A10-7870K "Godavari" APU. As there haven't been too many independent benchmarks of the A10-7870K yet, this week I picked up the new high-end APU and have been running a plethora of performance tests under Ubuntu Linux. Here's the first batch of the AMD A10-7870K Linux tests.

It doesn't look like AMD has been sampling the A10-7870K much for reviews given that the A10-7870K "Godavari" is just a minor refresh over Kaveri with the A10-7850K. However, I ended up purchasing an A10-7870K for adding to our LinuxBenchmarking.com test farm in delivering daily, upstream open-source benchmarks across 50+ systems. With continuing to add more systems, I decided to toss in an A10-7870K system to get more open-source Radeon graphics coverage. The A10-7870K just boosts the four CPU cores by 200MHz (3.9GHz total), 100MHz bump in the turbo frequency (4.1GHz tops), and the Radeon R7 GPU by 146MHz compared to the previous high-end Kaveri part, the A10-7850K. Everything else is basically the same between the A10-7870K and the older Kaveri parts. The A10-7870K retails for $140~150 USD while the A10-7850K is now going for around $130.