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AMD FX 6300 Cpu
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AMD FX 8350 Cpu
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Cpu
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
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AMD is refreshing its desktop processors with Piledriver, an enhanced version of Bulldozer that focuses on improving instructions per clock and frequency -- just like it did...Read more
With several new product releases over the last few weeks, AMD has been on a mission to gain back market share. While Trinity targeted the entry level crowd with a well rounded family of APUs, their Vishera FX-series firmly targets an enthusiast niche that doesn’t need or want onboard graphics...Read more
Six Piledriver cores at 5GHz? Don't mind if I doRead more
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AMD is refreshing its desktop processors with Piledriver, an enhanced version of Bulldozer that focuses on improving instructions per clock and frequency -- just like it did...Read more
Last year, AMD launched its Bulldozer architecture to disappointed enthusiasts who were hoping to see the company rise to its former glory. Today, we get an FX processor based on the Piledriver update. Does it give power users something to celebrate?Read more
HotHardware takes a detailed look at the new AMD FX 8350 octal-core desktop processor, formeraly codenamed Vishera.Read more
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General

Processor socketAM3+AM3+AM4
Component forPCPCPC
Operating modes
  • 32-bit
  • 64-bit
64-bit64-bit

Processor

Clock speed3.5 GHz4.0 GHz3.6 GHz
Max turbo speed3.8 GHz4.2 GHz4.2 GHz
Number of cores686
Number of threads6812
Thermal Design Power (TDP)95.0 W125.0 W65.0 W
Processor lithography0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in

Integrated Graphics

On-board graphics adapternonono
TypeNot available
N/A
Not available

Memory

Cache8 MB8 MB32 MB
Cache typeL3
N/A
L3
Memory clock speeds supported by processor1866.0 MHz1866.0 MHz3200.0 MHz
Memory types supported by processorDDR3 SDRAMDDR3 SDRAMDDR4 SDRAM
Memory bandwidth supported by processor (max)
N/A
29.9 GB/s
N/A
Memory channels
N/A
DualDual

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