AMD FX8350 4000 MHz Processor Confirmed

Just last week we were presenting the likelihood that AMD’s first high-end desktop AM3+ implementation of the new Piledriver architecture will run at a frequency as high as 4 GHz.

The company’s frequency improvements deriving from a more mature 32 nm SOI process and the implementation of a new clock mesh along with a somewhat longer pipeline were the most likely advantages that Pliedriver would bring.

There was much talk if the frequency improvements would be enough to make an impact on the market, but as we’ve learned with Trinity, AMD’s Piledriver brings much more than just higher frequencies.

We’ve seen here that a desktop implementation of the Piledriver architecture is showing a clear 15% performance improvement over the Bulldozer cores even without the help of the level 3 cache that FX desktop processors will have.

AMD’s new FX8350 desktop AM3+ processor will work at a base frequency of 4 GHz and the Turbo Core boost will up the frequency to a slightly higher 4.2 GHz when needed.

The first Piledriver desktop AM3+ implementation is codenamed Vishera and will come with a total of 16 MB of cache on die.

The on-dire cache memory is likely to be split in two parts. An 8 MB level 3 cache and there will be a group of four 2 MB level 2 cache slices.

Each Piledriver module will benefit from its own 2 MB level 2 cache and will contain one single FPU and two integer units.

The schedule is reported to have been pushed back to early Q4 of this year so, by October 2012 AMD will have a new desktop flagship processor, but the hardware experts at Fudzilla are confirming that the new CPU will run at 4000 MHz base frequency.

The maximum TDP of the new Vishera core is just 125 watts.

While this is not by far a modest TDP, all AMD AM3+ motherboards are required to support processors with a high 140 watts TDP so AMD’s has a little headroom to launch even faster models in the future.


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