AMD FX-8350 8-Core Black Edition Processor Review

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 'Vishera' is the first new highend part is a roughly a year. The new AMD FX-8350 features the same 'Piledriver' cores that we saw a few weeks back with the AMD A10-5800K APU. One of the upsides to the new AMD FX-Series of processors is that we aren't looking at a whole new platform like we did with the AMD A10-5800K APU, we can continue to use the AMD 990FX/SB950 chipset motherboards that we have come to love over the past year or so.

The AMD FX-8350 is the first 8-core processor to feature a base clock of 4GHz! The FX-4170 is a quad core processor in the previous generation that comes clocked at 4.2GHz/4.3GHz (base/turbo), but that's just a quad-core. Having eight cores at 4GHz is impressive, after all it wasn't that long ago that we were striving to break 4GHz when overclocking.