Dale: No I am not hating, I am providing exactly as it stated by AMD and by actual testing of the APU, video card or not, the APU itself will be the choke point be it a 8570 or a R9 or a Titan.
First off if you follow the links of the Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Accelerated_Processing_Unit) you will see where the origins and design started and still focused on. Now while given AMD does say it also is used for desktops and supposed gaming (think they legally have put themselves in a bind like back when the 'comptuers' were supposed to be able to run 'Vista' when they couldn't)
http://www.amd.com/us/solutions/desktops/Pages/desktops.aspx when actually put the test it hardly is in the 'spirit' of the statement.
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/A10-5800K-vs-Core-i3-3220-CPU-Review/1646/19
"You have to understand, however, that depending on the game, you won’t be able to achieve a good frame rate (i.e., a good gaming experience) even when lowering all image quality settings to their minimums. From the games we ran, we achieved a terrific frame rate on StarCraft II (almost 80 frames
per second), a good frame rate on FarCry 2 (around 40 frames per second), and a playable frame rate on DiRT3 (36 frames per second). However, on Battlefield 3 and Borderlands 2 the frame rate was below 20. ...Similarly to what we learned with the previous generation of AMD APUs, the A10-5800K lags behind its competitors in general processing performance. The Core i3-3220 is faster than the A10-5800K for day-to-day operations." **NOTE THE GAMES TESTED AND WHEN THEY WERE RELEASE**
As mentioned in other threads, APUs are great if your gonna play 2009 and older games, the demands won't push on the 'CPU' half of the APU. Remember a computer stores code on the HDD, to be read in chunks by the RAM to be passed to the CPU to process and assign the specific hardware to utilize that code. So even if you got a R9/Titan and plugged it in, you have a 5400RPM HDD you will take forever to load chunks of data BEFORE the RAM gets it. If your running slow / cheap RAM it takes longer for it to gather the HDD passed code BEFORE the CPU gets it. Then the CPU has to process and decide 'what happens to this code' (does it make music, does it pass over the NIC, does it need rendering, etc.) ALL BEFORE the R9/Titan/8570/whatever gets a chance to do rendering.
Hence why games played after 2010 require more 'meater' CPUs like the FX line, or iCore, NOT the APUs. I was VERY disappointed that CES and E3 all AMD came out with was more APUs instead of a better challenge to the Haswell chipset. Current scores ACROSS ALL TESTS shows that the most expensive AMD CPU (FX-8350) is JUST in front of the 'low end' i3 Haswell and behind the i5 Haswell, and still nothing challenging i7s. Unless they come up with a HyperThread-like solution, I feat AMD has give in and no longer interested in this marketspace (given that some major companies have stopped making Consumer PCs now, I dont' blame them either).