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Today we'll take a closer look at AMD FX-8350, the top processor of the Vishera series, based on the Piledriver microarchitecture. Testbeds Firstly, we'll compare the newer top AMD FX-8350 with the older top AMD FX-8150. As you see, they have similar s...
Our hero should have been released a year ago, named "FX-8150." Like any worthy debut processor of a new microarchitecture, it outperforms Phenom II X6 1100T and scores on a par with (sometimes even better than) the top Core i5 CPUs of the 2nd generat...
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Closed loop water cooling is not new, but it certainly is a pretty hot topic now. Some of the first units out there had some interesting issues (like internal corrosion clogging everything up), but once those teething problems were solved the close...
The AMD LCS that they are offering with the older FX-8150, and supposedly will be offering with the newer FX-8350, is a really nice little unit which will improve overclocking and thermal performance as compared to even a high end forced air unit.I was ab...
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insidehw.com Updated: 2013-09-27 00:55:41
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AMD FX-8350 - Transistor polishing We have to admit that the first encounter with Bulldozer was a bit disappointing, whether we’re talking about our own or the general impression. Simply enough, AMD’s octa-core CPU was expected to deliver a lot, yet it...
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AMD's FX-8350 is the latest desktop processor from AMD and the first eight-core CPU based on the company's "Piledriver" design. AMD is smarting after a weak global economy and strong demand for Intel products hit its profit margins and sales this past qua...
Improved performance and power consumption over previous generation products.
Still lags Intel in important areas like gaming...
The AMD FX-8350 CPU improves company's standing against Intel but doesn't rewrite the rules of the game...
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Behardware.com Updated: 2013-09-27 00:55:41
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On its introduction in October 2011, Zambezi, an AM3+ rollout of Bulldozer architecture, disappointed on several fronts. One year on AMD is back with Piledriver, a development of its CMT architecture, for a new AM3+ processor, Vishera. In this report...
Does, the AMD FX-8350, flagship of the new AMD FX range, mark AMD’s return to form? There has been much progress since the launch of the FX-8150, though it has to be said that this isn’t saying all that much. In terms of performance first of all, there...
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AMD's new flagship processor offers a decent boost in speed over its predecessors but without significantly improved energy efficiency or pricing, it fails to alter the desktop CPU landscape.
The FX-8350 is faster across the board than the FX-8150 but like its predecessor, it's hampered by uninspiring single-threaded performance and crummy energy efficiency. In both regards, there's a lot of ground to make up if AMD want to catch Intel. Sa...
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inc VAT) (ex TAX)After the crushing disappointment that was the and its line of FX-CPUs last year, AMD’s new CPUs now face an even sterner test. Since the release of the FX-8150 and the subsequent line of FX-branded CPUs, Intel has compounded it...
AMD has done a lot to improve the FX-8350 considering the lack of usual CPU architecture improvements. With no change in die size, TDP or production process, its managed to squeeze up to 15 per cent more performance out of this chip, all whilst lowering p...
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pcgamer.com Updated: 2013-09-27 00:55:46
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The first generation of AMD’s Bulldozer-based processors have been around for good long while now and it’s about time we had a little refresh. Duly the latest update to AMD’s CPU lineup has arrived in the form of the Piledriver processor.This AMD FX-83...
A decent update to the previous gen chip, but it’s still not necessarily the chip we’d recommend to the bargain PC builders...
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The AMD FX-8350 has a slight performance-per-Watt advantage over the FX-8150 when running OpenSSL. Through a wide variety of benchmarks, the average system power consumption for the AMD FX-8350 in the system with the ASUS Crosshair V Formula mother...
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It is just over a year since AMD launched its flagship consumer CPU. Probably known to you as 'Bulldozer' and brought to market under the performance-intimating FX branding, AMD's grounds-up design, comprised of up to eight cores, generally failed to win...
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benchmarkreviews.com Updated: 2013-09-27 00:55:51
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Manufacturer: Advanced Micro DevicesProduct Name: Desktop ProcessorModel Number: FX-8350SKU: FD8350FRW8KHKPrice As Tested: $199.99 MSRP Full Disclosure: AMD provided the product sample used in this article. Ask any AMD fan how they feel about the FX-8...
Eight cores and 5GHz on your desktop computer, Officially supports DDR31866 memory, Better performance than Intel on multithreaded tasks, An FX system has 38 usable PCIE lanes as opposed to the 24 lanes of a Sandy Bridge system, Excellent price/performance ratio, finally competitive with Intel in the $200 CPU range...
Single core performance still lags far behind Intel, Few programs use new FX instructions like fused multiplyadd, so the full performance potential remains untapped...
Benchmark tests should always be taken with a grain of salt. It's difficult to try and isolate the performance difference a single component in a computer system makes, especially when it's necessary to compare across different manufacturers and platf...
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Even before AMD officially released its Bulldozer-based FX-Series of desktop processors last year, the company was already talking about the follow-on microarchitecture codenamed “Piledriver”. In fact, in the conclusion of our launch article featuring...
Good Performance, Decent Overclocker, Improved Efficiency, Easy Upgrade For Existing AMD Owners...
Dated Platform, Intel CPUs Still Clearly Faster...
Even before AMD officially released its Bulldozer-based FX-Series of desktop processors last year, the company was already talking about the follow-on microarchitecture codenamed “Piledriver”. In fact, in the conclusion of our launch article featuring the...
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From the initial testing of the brand new AMD FX-8350 "Vishera", the performance was admirable, especially compared to last year's bit of a troubled start with the AMD FX Bulldozer processors. For many of the Linux computational benchmarks carried out...
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We think it's fair to say that the Bulldozer FX8150 was one of the biggest disappointments we've experienced here at OC3D. Most of us cut our teeth on AMD processors, and we had high hopes that the 8 core behemoth would finally bring AMD back in line w...
We are big fans of AMD here at OC3D. Not only did we start with AMD CPUs back in the Thunderbird days, but as people who like technology in all forms it's important that all the major manufacturers have healthy competition. Just as the Pentium III was out...
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Hot on the heels of our AMD A10-5800K Trinity APU Review, AMD announced the release of their next generation FX-series processors based on the new “Piledriver” cores today. Fortunately for us here at TechwareLabs, AMD sent us a shiny new FX-8350 to pu...
The FX-8350 is closer to what the FX-8150 should have been. There, I said it, and I think that pretty much sums up the comparison…so if you stop reading right now, you at least have the right take away. The CPU performs better in almost all facets, ru...
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Right on the heels of the AMD Never Settle game bundles and the latest Catalyst 12.11 driver announcement last night, AMD is making yet another big announcement tonight! The new AMD flagship processor has arrived! The new flagship codenamed 'Visher...
The AMD FX-8350 has a number of strong points that make it a great choice for your computer. If you're looking to upgrade from an older system you really can't beat the price to performance ratio offered with an eight core 4GHz processor processor fo...
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As the leaves up here in Canada begin to change colors, and the morning opens with frost on the ground each day, AMD has yet another product update for us. This time for their AMD FX CPUs. We knew that a "Piledriver"-based CPU was coming for some time...
Excellent affordability versus computing power, Low platform price, NEW Piledriver CPU core design, Improved "Per Clock" performance, Compatible with existing AM3+ products...
Same maximum TDP as previous products, Perhaps a bit late to the market. It still uses 32nm while Intel is on 22nm, Higher power consumption than Intel products, "Low" but adequate single-threaded performance will not appeal to some...
What can I say? AMD has priced these new FX-8350 CPUs in such a way that there is no doubt: they make an attractive alternative to their Intel counterparts, and AMD seems focused on keeping that price difference no matter what. AMD can't take Intel ove...
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xbitlabs.com Updated: 2013-09-27 00:56:02
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A year ago AMD introduced their principally new Bulldozer microarchitecture and desktop processors based on it. However, there wasn’t much to be raving about: the company still didn’t manage to catch up with Intel’s microprocessor architectures in effi...
Back then, a year ago, when we first met the desktop Zambezi processors, it already felt like AMD Bulldozer didn’t really end up in a good spot. We can’t say that AMD’s microarchitecture is flawed. On the contrary, it is very interesting and is capabl...
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HOT New Post! - NVIDIA’s GTX 650 Ti “Mini-Kepler” Graphics Card Reviewed - Read it Now! We have all seen a glimpse into what the new AMD Piledriver architecture is capable of with our recent review of the Virgo Platform and Trinity APUs. This time arou...
This is one of those occasions where AMD has done their job well, but we can’t really celebrate quite yet. The new flagship AMD FX-8350 “Vishera” definitively takes the title of champion amongst AMD processors. The Phenom II 1100T 6-core CPU can’t even...
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Today, AMD has completed the transition of their entire line of CPUs/APUs to the Piledriver design with the release of the Vishera, the mainstream/performance FX series CPU. How much performance can we expect from Vishera over Bulldozer? Let's find out.AM...
Piledriver is what Bulldozer should have been in the first place. The FX-8350 puts AMD back on track, but not yet back in the game. If it were not for Intel's exceptional high IPC and performance per watts ratio on Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge, AMD's Vishera/P...
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The AMD FX 8350 processor is here, and we'll test and review it. Ya'll learned a new word in the past few weeks, 'Vishera' and it is/was the codename for the new Piledriver core based FX series processors from AMD. The CPU tested today has eight physical...
then. I'll keep saying this, personally I would have preferred a faster per core performing AMD quad-core processor rather then an eight-core processor with reduced nice per core performance. However we do have to be clear here, we have been working with...
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As computer hardware enthusiasts, we all love to see advancements in core architecture technology. Sometimes we find it exciting and other times we find it almost depressing. AMD has not lead in the excitement category for a while now. Its last major desk...
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hitechlegion.com Updated: 2014-01-30 01:19:33
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In the 21st century however, much of the world's economic growth is driven by computers, at the heart of which is a miniscule piece of hardware that simplifies complex tasks and allows people to do more in less time. Developing these processors takes mont...
Excellent Price, Improved "Piledriver" Cores, AMD Turbo Core 3.0, Improved latencies compared to FX8150, 4GHz out of the box (4.2GHz with Turbo Core), Unlocked, 5GHz Overclockable...
Power consumption and temperatures have been improved but still high...
Expectations have been mixed in regards to the new “Piledriver” core processors, mostly because of the hype that surrounded Bulldozer and the consequent results that were not up to par with what most enthusiasts wished. It also did not help that Bulldoz...
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Last year, AMD launched its Bulldozer architecture to disappointed enthusiasts who were hoping to see the company rise to its former glory. Today, we get an FX processor based on the Piledriver update. Does it give power users something to celebrate? Ed...
We ran her through the twisties. We did the drag racing. We measured her mileage. We even popped her hood to figure out what makes this little speedster tick. In every way, today's FX-8350 is better than the FX-8150 that preceded it. Faster. More efficien...
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Last year's launch of AMD's FX processors was honestly disappointing. The Bulldozer CPU cores that were bundled into each Zambezi chip were hardly power efficient and in many areas couldn't significantly outperform AMD's previous generation platform. Look...
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Bulldozer is the word. Ok, perhaps it is not “the” word, but it is “a” word. When AMD let that little codename slip some years back, AMD enthusiasts and tech journalists started to salivate about the possibilities. Here was a unique and very new...
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This is not a new processor BUT it's my favorite AMD FX range processor to date and I thought it deserves a highlight.Converting 16 18 megapixel RAW file (CR2 format) into JPG format.The source video is a 720p MKV file that is 90 seconds in duration. x264...
The 125w octa-core processor retails at around RM 680, one of the best deal you can get from AMD's FX range of processor. With a little overclocking, you cam get it to perform very closely to the FX-9590 processor that is retailing at nearly RM 1300...
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Today AMD is releasing their new FX processors. They are an evolutionary step from AMD's oft-maligned Bulldozer processors released just over a year ago. How large of a step forward is Piledriver? We're here to show you!Like Bulldozer before it, the Piled...
I didn't give Bulldozer as bad a review as a lot of people did. Unlike many, I tried to look at Bulldozer as just any other CPU, not the return of the FX of days past, when AMD ruled the roost and Intel was playing catch up. I gave Bulldozer an Overcloc...
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When we looked at the Piledriver CPU, we ran it with our standard CPU review HD 6970. However, our CPU review game and 3D benchmark suite is a bit long in the tooth. In an effort to keep our readers more well-informed, we went back to the drawing board to...
So, what have we learned? Objectively, when looking at our entire benchmarking and gaming suite, the FX-8350 is priced right where it should be. Let's start with a reminder of price. As configured, the two systems here are $220 apart, or 16.7%. As menti...
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Now that Piledriver-based CPUs and APUs are widely available (and the FX-8350 is selling for less than $200), it's a great time to compare value-oriented chips in our favorite titles. We're also breaking out a test that conveys the latency between frames...
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AMD has been going through some difficult times lately, with management changes, layoffs, and a steady drip of talent drain, as a host of familiar faces have fled for greener pastures. These things have come against a backdrop of mounting financial losses...
You've probably gathered that the FX-8350 improves on its Bulldozer-based precursor pretty handily for a chip that's neither a die shrink nor an all-new architecture. The final verdict on the FX-8350 isn't terribly difficult to render, but it does have s...
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Nobody buys a CPU with unlocked multipliers to run it at stock frequencies, which you will see inside the many reviews around the web today. So what happens when you pit the flagship architectures together near the edge of conventional air and water cooli...
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Do the Piledriver FX core improvements help win back some enthusiast mind share or is it another power guzzling disappointment again?...
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Nearly six years have passed since the Core i7 series debuted as a 45nm part on the LGA1366 platform. Codenamed Bloomfield, Intel's Nehalem-based quad-core lineup included the celebrated Core i7-920 and has since been refined over many iterations through...
Competition is a good thing and without it, we all lose out. Unfortunately, Intel isn't facing much in the way of competition in the desktop CPU market right now, and they haven't for some time. AMD's year and a half old Piledriver-based FX processors can...
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In October 2011, AMD made a return to their FX processor platform with the latest Bulldozer architecture that was meant to bring competitive performance against Intel's Sandy Bridge counterparts. Fans around the globe were anticipating the launch of the f...
By the end of this review, all i have to say is that AMD now has a product that is competitive against Intel processors in terms of value. Intel Core i5 series are aimed by budget PC builders and gamers since they offer about the same performance minus th...
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AMD FX 8350 - 8320 - 6300 and 4300 processors performance analyzedAMD released the FX series Vishera - Piledriver based processor. And though everybody has been focusing on that most high-end AMD FX 8350 processor, another three processors have been relea...
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As computer hardware enthusiasts, we all love to see advancements in core architecture technology. Sometimes we find it exciting and other times we find it almost depressing. AMD has not lead in the excitement category for a while now. Its last major desk...
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Today, AMD is releasing its second-generation of FX CPUs, dubbed “Vishera.” The FX-8350 is currently the highest-end model available, running at 4 GHz and costing USD 195. Let’s see how it fares against its main competitor, the Core i5-3470 (3.2 GHz, U...
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As computer hardware enthusiasts, we all love to see advancements in core architecture technology. Sometimes we find it exciting and other times we find it almost depressing. AMD has not lead in the excitement category for a while now. Its last major desk...
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About this time last year, AMD's new Bulldozer-based FX series launched to bright-eyed system builders who expected the new architecture to challenge Intel's increasingly comfortable position in the upper-end processor market. Unfortunately, Bulldozer was...
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Although I didn't spend much time playing Batman: Arkham Origins, I remember the game rather well after testing it on no less than 30 graphics cards and 20 CPUs. Arkham Origins appeared to take full advantage of Unreal Engine 3, it ran smoothly on afforda...
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hardocp.com Updated: 2015-07-03 08:15:53
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As computer hardware enthusiasts, we all love to see advancements in core architecture technology. Sometimes we find it exciting and other times we find it almost depressing. AMD has not lead in the excitement category for a while now. Its last major desk...
While AMD is trying to make a value statement with its new FX-8350 (selling for $219 at time of publication), it simply will not be able to do so in the enthusiast arena. Perhaps, if we find that the $169 FX-8320 turns out to be a healthy overclocker, it...
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We take a look at the Trinity based A10-5800K and Vishera FX-8350 processors from AMD and see how they do in terms of all important performance...
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The AMD FX-8350 processor is a mid-level 8-core 125W processor from AMD. Designed to offer a both ‘tall and wide' performance, it features 8 cores and turbo boost. Being 8 cores wide will benefit multi-threaded applications like media encoding, traditiona...
Excellent Multi-threading Performance, Very Reasonable Price, Strong Overclocking Potential, Best OEM Cooler Available...
Lack Luster Single Threaded Performance...
The new AMD FX 8350 is far from ground breaking. It does not really need to be either. Its multi-threading prowess would make the Intel Core i3 an easy target and can even take down the more expensive Core i5 in some cases. As the overclocking testing sho...
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Rumours of the AMD FX processor's death has been greatly exaggerated. Five years old and still going — ancient by typical CPU-age metrics but have newfound relevance with the rise of VR. Both the AMD FX 6350 and FX 8350 pass the SteamVR performance test w...
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computershopper.com Updated: 2016-10-30 03:13:13
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With the market for new PCs stagnating through much of 2012 due to the growth in tablets and people playing a wait-and-see game with the imminent launch of Windows 8, chip maker AMD recently announced some serious restructuring . According to recent state...
Reasonably priced, Appreciable performance improvements with multicore-optimized software, Compatible with older AMD socket and motherboards...
Still lags behind in single-core tests, Uses much more power than comparable Intel chips, which also have on-chip graphics...
AMD's new-for-2012 octo-core desktop processor shows improved performance with software that takes full advantage of all cores. It's a good option for upgraders with an earlier AMD FX-based system, but single-core performance and power efficiency still f...
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armchairempire.com Updated: 2017-08-23 11:00:22
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Can a 4-year-old AMD CPU really make a mark on today's CPU market? The FX-8350 – with the Wraith Cooler – retails much cheaper compared with several Intel processors, only costing more than the Core i3 lineup. And, this is probably a major reason why it s...
Lower priced processor and cheaper motherboards, An overall performer with decent scores in almost all benchmarks should be sufficient reasons to get the AMD FX-8350, Designed for overclocking, this processor really does double up on clock speeds without...
Outdated technology that does not match up to latest generation of processors from Intel, Eats a lot of power in stock configuration and naturally heats up when overclocked, With Ryzen 5 coming out shortly, the 8350 might just have breathed its last, Shou...
A reliable performer that has been doing the rounds for years now, AMD FX-8350 was supposed to revolutionize the processor market in its launch year. Unfortunately, the euphoria did not last and AMD was relegated to the realms of affordable unlocked proce...
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Review AMD Trinity and FX Desktop Processors Klaus Hinum, Till Schönborn ( translated by Martina Osztovits), 05/07/2013 Windows Ivy Bridge Gaming Desktop roundup. Notebookcheck leaves the beaten track: We compare current PC process...
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April proved to be a fun-filled month with AMD allowing me to review two of its newest entries in processors. As you may recall, the Athlon X4 880K and A10-7890K were both released back in March to expand their lineup of socket FM2+ based processors with...
Testing will be conducted by having the FX 8350 CPU set to operate at the base and turbo mode frequencies, then running Prime95 to obtain a stress readings for temperature and fan speeds. Readings will be made with the older AMD stock cooler compared to t...
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