Mathragh Why not? this chip has full shaders, and also a 65Watt TDP with decent clocks.



What part makes the 7600 a better choice?

the best possible integrated graphics

Because of the price. At $140 or more, 78X0K/7700K APUs are just a "NO GO". OK if you need to build a slim PC that will NEVER ever get a discrete graphics card and at the same time you need, I agree it is the best possible choice at the moment. But this isn't the case for most people who could be interested in a chip like this. We are talking about a very limited market. The rest will do their maths and see for example that a 750K and even a non-K R7 250, are a much better option than 7800K. Or they will choose an Intel. The unlocked Pentium will only do things worst now.When Kaveri come out 7600 was a dream come true for the AMD platform. If you wanted to build an all around office PC, or an internet PC, or a light gaming PC, or an HTPC, or a PC to do a little of all the above, 7600 was just perfect. Configurable TDP as low as 45W, quad core over 3GHz, 384 stream processors, HSA, GCN, Mantle, TrueAudio. Compared to the $152 for the 7700K and the $173 of the 7850K, 7600 at $119 was the only Kaveri APU that there was logic in buying it.Unfortunately AMD used the 7600 only for positive feedback on the Kaveri and hoped that most people who will lose their patience will just wait doing nothing or go for the higher models that have better margins.In my case that I sold one of my AM3s making room for the 7600, AMD was in fact lucky because I am AMD only in the cpu part for many years. AM1 was looking really interesting and decided to built an AM1 with a Sempron 3850 as an HTPC, so AMD kept me as a customer. But it was the first time in 15 years that I thought to go back to Intel and if G3258 had come two months earlier it would have been my first Intel in years.