AMD FX-8350 Vishera 4.0GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor FD8350FRHKBOX

AMD FX Processors

Transform your PC into a multimedia powerhouse Take your PC’s megatasking abilities to extreme levels with the first native 8-core desktop processor built with dynamic, tuneable performance to handle multiple intensive apps without breaking a sweat. Advanced 3D gaming Complex 3D modeling HD video editing

Features

Overclock and keep cool with up to eight cores and 5 GHz of the most advanced technology you can buy.1The AMD FX-series processor unleashes up to 5 GHz of performance and contains up to eight powerful cores, so you can game, overclock and get the max out of your experience. Control up to eight cores and 5 GHz of relentless power Dominate your games with unlocked, maximum performance Combine it with an AMD Radeon™ R9 series graphics card for the ultimate gaming experience

New Instruction Capabilities

• AVX - Advanced Vector Extensions increase parallelism for scientific and 3D apps using heavy floating point calculations
• FMA4 and XOP – Floating-Point Vector Multiply-Accumulate and eXtended Operations improves throughput and performance on many integer and floating point vector functions
• AES - Advanced Encryption Standard increases performance on encryption apps like TrueCrypt® and PCMark®

AMD FX 8-Core Processors

• The industry's first and only native 8-core desktop processor for unmatched multitasking and pure core performance with "Bulldozer" architecture.
• New 32 nanometer die shrink designed to reduce leakage for improved efficiency, increased clock rate headroom and better thermals.

AMD Turbo CORE Technology

• AMD FX Processors come equipped with AMD Turbo CORE Technology.2 AMD Turbo CORE Technology is a performance boosting technology that helps increase performance on the applications that need it the most.

AMD Balanced Smart Cache

• Shared L3 cache ( up to 8MB)
  • Improved scheduling and pre-fetch capabilities
  • 64-ways (16-ways/sub-cache)
  • Increased data queue sizes
  • Coherency for 8-cores

AMD Wide Floating Point Accelerator

• Shared FP Scheduler
• Dual 128-bit Floating point engines – capable of teaming together for 256-bit AVX instructions or operating separately with each core

HyperTransport™ Technology

• One 16-bit link at up to 5600MT/s
• Up to 8.0GB/s HyperTransport™ I/O bandwidth; Up to 16GB/s in HyperTransport Generation 3.0 mode
• Up to 37GB/s total delivered processor-to-system bandwidth (HyperTransport bus + memory bus)

Benefit: Quick access times to system I/O for better performance.

Integrated DRAM Controller with AMD Memory Optimizer Technology

• A high-bandwidth, low-latency integrated memory controller
• Supports up to DDR3-1866
• Supports new low voltage memories of 1.35V and 1.2V
• Up to 29.9GB/s memory bandwidth for DDR3
• New Pre-Fetcher improvements
• Direct communications to each core in Dual-Core module (APIC registers in each core)

Benefit: Optimized memory controller to feed more cores.

AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™) Technology with IOMMU

• Silicon feature-set enhancements designed to improve the performance, reliability and security of existing and future virtualization environments by allowing virtualized applications with direct and rapid access to their allocated memory.
• IOMMU is an extension to AMD64 architecture to support address translation and access protection on DMA transfers
  • Security for User Level application and Virtual Machine guest operating system
    • Address translation and access control
    • Device isolation
    • Device assignment in virtualized systems
    • Security and trusted boot support
    • Unified interrupt management

Benefit: Helps virtualization software to run more securely and efficiently enabling a better experience when dealing with virtual systems

AMD PowerNow!™ AMD Technology (Cool'n'Quiet™ Technology)

• Enhanced power management features which automatically and instantaneously adjusts performance states and features based on processor performance requirements
• C6 power state flushes the cache and removes voltage from individual cores to help reduce power consumption
• CC6 power state puts all cores in C6 into an even lower power state
  • for quieter operation and reduced power requirements
• Separate memory controller power control
• IO-based c-state interface
• Works automatically without the need for drivers or BIOS enablement.
• Power can be switched on or off within a single clock cycle, saving energy with minimal impact to performance

Benefit: Helps users get more efficient performance by dynamically activating or turning off parts of the processor.

Product Brief

This is FXing Serious. We call it the new AMD FX 8-Core Processor Black Edition and it's unlocked for your overclocking pleasure.Experience unmatched multitasking and pure core performance with the industry's first 32nm 8-core desktop processor. Get the speed you crave with AMD Turbo CORE Technology to push your core frequencies to the limit when you need it most. Go beyond the limits of maximum speed with easy-to-use AMD OverDrive™ technology and AMD Catalyst™ Control Center™ software suites. But the best part of all? You'll get all this impressive performance at an unbelievable price. You'll be asking yourself "what competition?" in no time.AMD FX Processors unlock maximum, unrestrained processing performance for extreme responsiveness you can see and feel.

Maximum Performance

• The industry's only 8-core desktop processor
• Overclock with easy to use AMD Overdrive™ technology and AMD Catalyst™ Control Center™ software suites
• Supreme power available from virtually every core configuration - also available in 6- and
  4-core variants
• Aggressive performance for mega-tasking and intensive applications like video editing and
  3D modeling

Innovative Architecture

• The industry's first and only native 8-core desktop processor for unmatched multitasking and pure core performance with "Bulldozer" architecture
• New 32 nanometer die shrink designed to reduce leakage for improved efficiency, increased clock rate headroom and improved thermals
• Can deliver cores and performance you need without raising the power requirements

An Industry Leader in Price for the Performance

• Unlocked processors allow the maximum in tunable performance
• AMD Turbo CORE Technology dynamically adjusts performance to give you the best experience, no matter what you are doing
• Get superior performance at a competitive price with unlocked technology

• NEW PILEDRIVER MICROARCHITECTUREPiledriver microarchitecture is the second generation of AMD Bulldozer microarchitecture. The internal core structure has been modified for higher frequencies even without any changes in the manufacturing process. Piledriver has a more precise branch predictor and a larger instruction window with ISA extensions FMA3 and F16C. The execution units acquired an enhanced scheduler and learned to process individual instructions faster, such as integer and floating-point division. And Piledriver microarchitecture delivers higher power efficiency compared with Bulldozer microarchitecture.
• UNLOCKED AMD FX PROCESSOR WITH 8 PILEDRIVER CORESThe native 8-core desktop processor delivers unrivaled multitasking and pure core performance with the new Piledriver microarchitecture. 32 nanometer die shrink was designed to reduce leakage for improved efficiency, increased clock rate headroom and better thermals. The AMD unlocked technology offers more headroom for your overclocking (AMD’s product warranty does not cover damage caused by overclocking even when overclocking is enabled via AMD Overdrive software.).
• AMD TURBO TECHNOLOGYThe AMD FX Processors come equipped with AMD Turbo CORE Technology, a performance boosting technology that helps increase performance on the applications that need it the most.
• AMAZING INSTRUCTION CAPABILITIESLike Bulldozer, Piledriver has some amazing instruction capabilities. Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) increase parallelism tailored for scientific and 3D applications that use heavy floating point calculations. Floating Point Vector Multiply-Accumulate improves throughput and performance on many vector functions (integer and floating point). Advanced Encryption Standard noticeably increases performance on the latest encryption applications like TrueCrypt and benchmarks like PCMark.
• AMD HYPERTRANSPORT TECHNOLOGYHyperTransport Technology (HT or HTT) is a high-speed, low latency, point-to-point link which helps reduce the number of buses in a system thus reducing system bottlenecks and enabling today's faster microprocessors to use system memory more efficiently in high-end multiprocessor systems.
• INTEGRATED DRAM CONTROLLER WITH AMD MEMORY OPTIMIZER TECHNOLOGYAMD FX Vishera Processor features a high-bandwidth, low-latency integrated memory controller that supports faster and low voltage memories and provides new Pre-Fetcher improvements and direct communications to each core in Dual-Core module (APIC registers in each core).
• Learn more about FX-8350 Black EditionModelBrandAMDSeriesFX-SeriesNameFX-8350 Black EditionModelFD8350FRHKBOXCPU Socket TypeCPU Socket TypeSocket AM3+DetailsCore NameVishera# of Cores8-CoreOperating Frequency4.0GHz (4.2GHz Turbo)L2 Cache4 x 2MBL3 Cache8MBManufacturing Tech32nm64-Bit SupportYesVirtualization Technology SupportYesThermal Design Power125WCooling DeviceHeatsink and fan included