AMD FX Series Processor Review And Features

AMD’s FX processor series is far from new, but there are a few new features in their FX-57 CPU that we are looking at today.First, for those that are not “in the know” about the FX processor, here is a bit of basic background. The FX processor stay seated firmly as AMD’s gaming processor even though it no longer  touts both superior clock speeds and superior L2 cache.Nowadays,the Fx series is simply defined by a healthier clock speed as 1MB L2 caches have seeped down into the vanilla Athlon 64 line of CPUs.

These FX-series chips will be available in eight, six and four core editions with TDPs ranging from 95W to 125W.The primary family of AMD FX-series central processing units (CPUs) will feature two eight-core models, one six-core flavor as well as a quad-core version. The chips will support dual-channel DDR3 1866MHz memory, will support Turbo Core dynamic acceleration technology and will come in AM3+ form-factor and will have 125W and 95W TDP. The second "wave" of Bulldozer chips will also include four microprocessors and will improve performance of the initial breed of CPUs.X-bit Labs reports specifications of AMD's first four Bulldozer desktop processors. The intrigue remains about exact clock-speed of Bulldozer chips. Based on estimations, frequencies of such chips may be as high as 3.50GHz.

AMD FX Series Processor Features:
AMD's recently introduced Turbo Core 2.0 technology will allow the company's upcoming FX-Series desktop chips. This technology uses the advanced power gating features newly introduced in the Llano processors as well as the information available regarding the workloads handled by the CPU in order to dynamically adjust the operating frequencies of the processing cores. This way, the cores can exceed their nominal clock speed for short amounts of time to improve the chips performance especially in lower threaded applications.