AMD's integrated graphics received a new lease on life when the company unleashed its 32nm "Llano" desktop processors earlier this year. Sporting an on-die Radeon HD 6550D graphics processor, the AMD A8-3850 APU rendered many low-end discrete graphics cards obsolete and made Intel's HD Graphics 3000 engine look foolish in the process.Despite losing its L3 cache completely, AMD's A8, A6 and even the upcoming A4-Series APUs feature a brawnier L2 cache to compensate. Whereas the Phenom II range is equipped with a massive 6MB L3 cache, each core is only supported by 512KB of L2 cache. Discarding the complex and power hungry L3 cache allowed AMD to double the L2 cache capacity per core. As a result, the quad-core A8-3850 received a 4MB L2 cache which significantly boosted performance compared to a similarly clocked Athlon II processor. With improved general processing and graphics power, the Llano range represents exceptional value as the A8-3850 costs a mere $140, while the A6-3650 can be had for $120 as of writing