About this time last year, AMD's new Bulldozer-based FX series launched to bright-eyed system builders who expected the new architecture to challenge Intel's increasingly comfortable position in the ...

AMD released the FX series Vishera - Piledriver based processor. And though everybody has been focusing on that most high-end AMD FX 8350 processor, another three processors have been released.

Again, we see virtually no speed boost from Piledriver over Bulldozer, as the FX-8350 was just 2.5% faster than the FX-8150, while the FX-6300 had an equal lead over the FX-6100. At the same time, the ...