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 ...

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's been a rocky year for AMD. In retrospect, Bulldozer's disappointing performance was the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Since it launched, Sunnyvale has laid off thousands, is preparing to lay off ...

AIDA64 demonstrates that AMD hasn't changed anything to improve the memory subsystem of the Piledriver FX processors. Although the FX-8350 had 4% more read bandwidth at its disposal, keep in mind that ...

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Just how does a $300 AMD CPU and motherboard combo compare against a $1000 Intel combo at 4K on GTX 780 and GTX 980 SLI? Let's find out. Earlier on in the week, we pitted our AMD and Intel systems ...

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I am trying to decide between a FX8350 set up vs a i7 4790K set up. I will use the pc for gaming, graphic design, 3D design and rendering and video editing. I am moving up from a old q6600 system. I ...

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, ...