AMD A10-7850K APU interaction with motherboard integrated graphics

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dkomisar

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I have an A10-7850K in a Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H motherboard. On the specs page for the motherboard for onboard graphics it says:

APU with integrated AMD Radeon™ HD 8000/7000 series graphics:
* To use the onboard graphics ports, you must install an AMD APU with integrated graphics.

I'm a little confused as to what this means. The system seems to work fine. WIndows tells me it's using the Radeon R7 which is the GPU inside the APU. I can't find any references to the 7000/8000 in Windows at all. Does it mean that the system automatically uses dual graphics (or crossfire or whatever they call it) when you use an APU? If so it sounds like you can only use the motherboard integrated graphics this mode.

 
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The 7000 series (as well as the 8000 "mobile" series) GPUs were rebranded a couple of years back to the newer R series (for example, the HD 7850 was rebranded as the R9 270, the 7950 as the R9 280). Just as with Intel integrated graphics,the IGU itself is part of the CPU, & the motherboard provides the direct connection to the rear graphics ports. No additional setup is required, just make sure your A-series CPU is installed & your monitor is connected to the onboard graphics port.
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The 7000 series (as well as the 8000 "mobile" series) GPUs were rebranded a couple of years back to the newer R series (for example, the HD 7850 was rebranded as the R9 270, the 7950 as the R9 280). Just as with Intel integrated graphics,the IGU itself is part of the CPU, & the motherboard provides the direct connection to the rear graphics ports. No additional setup is required, just make sure your A-series CPU is installed & your monitor is connected to the onboard graphics port.
 
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Thanks guys, starting to make sense. So no FM2/FM2+ motherboards have actual integrated GPUs.

I think the source of my confusion comes from the some of the search filters on the Newegg site. If you go to FM2+ motherboards and look at the video chipset filters section there are a number of items. A bunch of them are chipset names, then it there is "integrated graphics", "Supported only by CPU with integrated graphics", and "none". So I guess these are just the marketing terms from the motherboard manufacturers? All of these have some kind of video chipset on the motherboard and none of them have an integrated GPU?
 
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