APU A8-6500 Quad-Core is a performance CPU based on the 32nm, Piledriver architecture.

It offers 4 Physical Cores (4 Logical), initially clocked at 3.5GHz, which may go up to 4.1GHz and 4MB of L2 Cache.
Among its many features, Turbo Core and Virtualization are activated.

The processor integrates mildly powerful Graphics called Radeon HD 8570D, with 256 Shader Processing Units, clocked at 800MHz, which share the L2 Cache and system RAM with the processor.
Both the processor and integrated graphics have a rated board TDP of 100W.

It is a powerful Quad Core whose performance is good. It's thus capable of running most applications smoothly without any problem.