Tuesday, November 6th 2012
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AMD Working on Cost-Effective FX-8300 Eight-Core Processor with 95W TDP
It looks like the flagship FX-8350 and next-best FX-8320 won't be the only FX "Vishera" eight-core chips from AMD, despite the fact that the two occupy low price points of US $194 and $164, respectively. A new model called the FX-8300 surfaced on CPU support lists of a certain motherboard vendor, which reveals quite a bit about it. To begin with, the FX-8300 (model: FD8300WMW8KHK) features nominal core clock speed of 3.20 GHz, with TurboCore frequency of around 3.60 GHz. Its clock speed may be the lowest among its peers, but that results in a significant drop in rated TDP. The new eight-core chip has a rated TDP of 95W, down from 125W of the FX-8320 and FX-8350. It is based on the same C0-stepping silicon as the other models. Socket AM3+ motherboards with AGESA micro-code 1.5 should be able to support it. As for pricing, we expect its 95W TDP to serve as a selling point, and don't expect it to be much cheaper than the 125W FX-8320.
64 Comments on AMD Working on Cost-Effective FX-8300 Eight-Core Processor with 95W TDP
Did anyone else see AMD perform well in an actually multithreaded game?
or any of these?
Since everyone loves to throw skyrim in. Take any BD or PD chip disable it down to 1 module with a single core and clock the holy heck out of it. Post back if it outperforms an i3.
I recommend keeping the forum code saved for when another thread like this pops up.
Its ok if my eyes cannot see 5 to 10 fps that I7 churns extra.
No Ocing, put it in, finish setup, have a drink, start to fire bullets.
:toast:
Regarding FX performance in multithreaded apps, nobody's disputing it, least of all "Intel fanboys" (am I an Intel fanboy? With both of my rigs running AMD CPUs?). Trouble is, some of the most demanding applications that a lot of people run aren't well threaded (yet).
But hey if skyrim bad superpi are your thing I highly suggest a heavily overclocked I3.