3DMark Vantage focuses on the two areas most critical to gaming performance: the CPU and the GPU. With the emergence of multi-package and multi-core configurations on both the CPU and GPU side, the ...

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 ...

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, ...

It's very easy to be dismissive of AMD's mainstream FX processors based on the Piledriver core. Intel has been beating AMD on every front but price for a couple of generations now, owing at least some ...

Obviously we also had to peek at memory bandwidth performance. The new memory controller works well for AMD's FX series as performance has skyrocketed. We let the motherboard decide what default ...

Throughout all of our benchmarking and testing, we also monitored how much power our test systems consumed using a power meter. Our goal was to give you all an idea as to how much power each ...

First up, we have SPECviewperf v11's SolidWorks test, in which the FX-8350 delivered virtually the same performance as its predecessor, the FX-8150, despite featuring an 11% clock speed advantage. The ...