Today AMD has launched the AMD FX family of CPUs for sale today, this including the very first eight-core desktop CPU, one that last month set the Guinness World Record for "Highest Frequency of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Speed. It's of paramount importance in evaluating any computer system, and the engine that gives your PC its get up and go is its CPU. The folks at AMD wanted to show off just how awesome (and fast) ...

AMD has announced the immediate, risen-from-the-ashes availability of the FX family of Zambezi, Bulldozer-based CPUs -- you should be able to pick one up from your favorite retailer today. As expected ...

Recent processors released by AMD using their 90nm production process, including the Venice core which powers a load of mass-market low-to-high-end CPUs with the Athlon 64 moniker and the dual-core ...

AMD has pulled significant mileage out of its Athlon and Phenom CPUs. Tracing the lineage all the way back to 2003 with the release of the Athlon 64, architecture modifications - K8 to K10 - die ...

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 ...

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