AMD FX 8-Core FX-8350 BOX

Catch up and overtake

AMD FX-8350 is the pre-top model in the FX-8000 processor line. It is inferior to the top solution FX-8370 by only 100 MHz of frequency, and even then only in the Turbo Core auto-overclocking mode, but at the same time it costs significantly less. Moreover, the difference in frequency is easy to catch up and even overtake with manual overclocking thanks to the unlocked multiplier.

The Magnificent Eight

The main selling point of the FX-8350 is eight cores at a price that Intel offers just four threads. But it is worth noting that the cores of the FX-8350 are also not completely separate, but paired in two: with a common cache and an FPU module (floating point calculations), which is why the performance of each core is relatively low.

hot temper

However, the latest games, like Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Battlefield 1, give out much higher FPS on a weak octa-core than on a powerful quad-core. And professional applications (photo, audio and video editors) get even more performance gains from parallelization. Perhaps the only serious shortcoming of the AMD FX-8350 is its strong heating (125 W), which forces you to urgently change a simple boxed cooler to a tower or "dropsy" cooler.