Even before AMD officially released its Bulldozer-based FX-Series of desktop processors last year, the company was already talking about the follow-on microarchitecture codenamed “Piledriver”. In fact ...

Last week during E3, AMD launched its new FX-9590 CPU, the world's first factory clocked 5GHz CPU. While the timing was a little odd for such a big deal product, it still managed to make some ...

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It is just over a year since AMD launched its flagship consumer CPU. Probably known to you as 'Bulldozer' and brought to market under the performance-intimating FX branding, AMD's grounds-up design, ...

It has been more than a year since AMD launched its last major update to the top end FX processor line -- the FX-9590. The company has been quiet in the face of Intel's high-end launches, but today ...

AMD's flagship 5.0 GHz processor, the AMD FX-9560, has gone on sale, though the chip won't be available as a standalone part for some time. The company will instead offer the new processor through ...

AMD announced two Bulldozer desktop processors today, the six-core FX-6200 and the quad-core FX-4170, along with an $80 price cut to its high-end FX-8150. AMD announced two Bulldozer desktop ...

All the reviews are in for AMD's new "4x4" Quad FX dual CPU platform and it loses nearly every single real world benchmark to a single Intel CPU while consuming more than twice the electricity. We ...

While Intel was announcing a high-end unlocked 8-core CPU based on its Haswell architecture last week, AMD was briefing the press on new unlocked octa-core CPUs of its own. But AMD isn’t making ...

AMD managed to do quite a few things on September 23rd of last year. That was the release date for the Athlon 64 FX-51 CPU and Athlon 64 Model 3200+ processor. Previously, AMD's consumer-level ...

The overwhelming majority of hardware enthusiasts invest in third-party CPU coolers with superb thermal dissipation and a wonderful noise to performance ratio. This includes large air coolers like the ...

AMD hopes to finally step from behind Intel’s shadow with the launch of its all-new mobile APU platform, codenamed Kaveri. Despite lagging behind its nemesis’s offerings in terms of manufacturing ...