Was checking out the resource manager when playing a game to see how hard Flatout 2 was hitting the APU and down in lower right corner of this it lists L1 and L2 cache sizes of the CPU. The size of the L2 cache states 8MB, but I went looking online to see if this is correct and the AMD A8-5545m 1.7Ghz with 2.7Ghz Turbo processor states 4MB of L2 cache.
So curious if there is another way to check L2 cache size to see if its really 8MB vs 4MB?
AMD has been known to disable sections of processors that are high end that didnt pass stress testing and shut off those areas and relabel higher end processors as lower end with locked out/disabled features. I am curious if this APU is a higher end processor that wasnt properly locked out for a higher cache size, so 8MB of L2 cache is actually functional vs 4MB of L2 cache.
I am impressed with the performance of this APU. It plays almost all of my games old and new titles and the computer alone without monitor with the quadcores running full tilt only draw 60 watts of power. It runs almost constantly above 2Ghz in the 2.4 to 2.7Ghz range and doesnt overheat. This just about constant Turbo enabled clock really helps with its ability to play games since most games run best at 2.5Ghz or faster clocked processors no matter of core count.
Here is the motherboard that I am running which came with this mobile APU in a desktop motherboard.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138448Been running this board since August 2017 with no problems as my main computer to save on the electric bill as for combined power draw is 83 watts with computer and flat screen monitor. My other 8-core 3.3 and 4.0Ghz systems run between 200 and 465 watts with the power hungry CPU and GTX 570 and GTX 780 video cards.
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