AMD Launches the FX-4350 and FX-6350 Piledriver CPUs

[RedundantInk]

The latest additions to AMD's FX series of CPUs are essentially faster and hungrier versions of the FX-4300 and FX-6300 processors.

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[Dark Lord of Tech]

Nice deals.

 

[vmem]

cmon, less piledriver refresh, more steamroller development!!!
on a side note, these FX-chips look better and better for the budget builder

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

I agree , on a budget , gotta love them!

 

[bustapr]

thats quite an interesting price. usually tdp is not a big factor in pricing, but this time you getto choose between a lower power/slower cpu and a higher power/faster cpu at the same price. i like having this choice.

 

[rolli59]

Looks just like overclocked versions on CPU's with unlocked multipliers.

 

[Estix]

Looks just like overclocked versions on CPU's with unlocked multipliers.

Overclocked, but not necessarily higher-binned, if they have higher TDPs, they may have slightly higher stock voltages, and lower headroom for OC'ing.

 

[Cazalan]

The 32nm process has matured. They get some higher binned parts.
The pricing is still odd. Who wouldn't pay $10 more for 50% more cores?

 

[twelve25]

I will be interested to see the FX-4350 game benchmarks. It's pretty apparent from benchmarks that games don't use more than 4 cores right now so the 4.3/4.3Ghz could make it the fastest AMD gaming chip.

 

[twelve25]

The 32nm process has matured. They get some higher binned parts.
The pricing is still odd. Who wouldn't pay $10 more for 50% more cores?

That was always the problem with the 4300/6300 choice, too. The Quad cores should be $110 max for it to be attractive.

 

[christop]

I like the prices..

 

[smeezekitty]

AMD should work on getting that TDP down. High TDP = lots of heat.

 

[ryude]

My FX-6300 overclocked to 4.2Ghz while undervolted to 1.3v (1.375v stock). Obviously AMD has raised the voltage for these parts, but you can easily undervolt them for 20-30w savings.

 

[BringMeAnother]

The quad cores have a higher clock rate so they could faster in some cases.

 

[ohyouknow]

4350 has 8mb L3 cahce. Hmm, does that mean it's a locked FX 6300 or poor performing one? Thoughts.

 

[TheBigTroll]

nothing new to see here

 

[amoralman]

Only one word comes to mind.
Meh!

 

[infamouswoodster]

Looks like a standard uptick in MHz. My fx 6300 went to 4.5ghz with very little effort so the value/performance/headroom factor is still good for AMD. I like to hear what AMD is up to these days, it keeps the CPU market interesting for us poor gamers.

 

[jerm1027]

Wait, the FX-4350 has 8MB of L3 cache?
I wonder how that will impact performance compared to a FX-4300 at the same clock speed...

 

[warbler boy]

The 4350 looks particularly interesting. Higher clock & double the cache. Could be an excellent chip if the price is right.

 

[silverblue]

I'm confused as to why the author didn't highlight the 4350's extra cache; speed bumps are one thing, extra cache is another. In addition, whilst AMD released new Phenom IIs and Athlon IIs at slightly higher clocks for the same - or similar - price as their existing product line, here we're talking a much larger increase for the same money - more than 10% better performance on average.
As for TDPs, I doubt they'd have gone up that much (it's a shame that AMD don't have TDP brackets smaller than 30W at the upper end of the scale).

 

[oj88]

Wow, compared to FX-8350 at $180-$200, FX-6350 is a steal. Now I need to find a quality motherboard around $130 for my next build. Any idea?

 

[Haserath]

The 32nm process has matured. They get some higher binned parts.
The pricing is still odd. Who wouldn't pay $10 more for 50% more cores?

The 2 module PD is a cut down version of the 3 module. And the 3 module is a full die from what I read before, mostly due to 50% of their volume being 3 module or less.
So they must not have many cut down dies to warrant a lower price.

 

[Mottamort]

Hopefully these will come in at reasonable prices in my country, really wanting to upgrade from my Athlon II 440, but AMD in South Africa has completely dried up/shot up in prices compared to where they used to be (cheaper than their Intel counterparts) :/

 

[somebodyspecial]

At anything over 85w I'll pass. Intel beats them with less.