Take your PC's megatasking abilities to extreme levels with the first native 8-core desktop processor built with dynamic, tuneable performance to handle multiple intensive apps without breaking a sweat.

Enjoy the highest clocks and the most cores you can get on a consumer desktop PC with the AMD FX™ Series Processor family, from the company behind proven high-performance processors in the PlayStation® 4 and Xbox One™ gaming consoles, and Radeon™ graphics cards. Featuring a 220 Watt TDP, the AMD FX™ Series processors have special system requirements including a robust liquid cooling system.

AVX - Advanced Vector Extensions increase parallelism for scientific and 3D apps using heavy floating point calculations

- Advanced Vector Extensions increase parallelism for scientific and 3D apps using heavy floating point calculations FMA4 and XOP – Floating-Point Vector Multiply-Accumulate and eXtended Operations improves throughput and performance on many integer and floating point vector functions

– Floating-Point Vector Multiply-Accumulate and eXtended Operations improves throughput and performance on many integer and floating point vector functions AES - Advanced Encryption Standard increases performance on encryption apps like TrueCrypt® and PCMark®

We call it the new AMD FX 8-Core Processor Black Edition and it's unlocked for your overclocking pleasure. Experience unmatched multitasking and pure core performance with the industry's first 32nm 8-core desktop processor. Get the speed you crave with AMD Turbo CORE Technology to push your core frequencies to the limit when you need it most. Go beyond the limits of maximum speed with easy-to-use AMD OverDrive™ technology and AMD Catalyst™ Control Center™ software suites. But the best part of all? You'll get all this impressive performance at an unbelievable price. You'll be asking yourself "what competition?" in no time.

The industry's first and only native 8-core desktop processor for unmatched multitasking and pure core performance with "Bulldozer" architecture.

New 32 nanometer die shrink designed to reduce leakage for improved efficiency, increased clock rate headroom and better thermals.

AMD FX Processors come equipped with AMD Turbo CORE Technology. AMD Turbo CORE Technology is a performance boosting technology that helps increase performance on the applications that need it the most.

Shared L3 cache ( up to 8MB)

Improved scheduling and pre-fetch capabilities



64-ways (16-ways/sub-cache)



Increased data queue sizes



Coherency for 8-cores

Shared FP Scheduler

Dual 128-bit Floating point engines – capable of teaming together for 256-bit AVX instructions or operating separately with each core

One 16-bit link at up to 5600MT/s

Up to 8.0GB/s HyperTransport™ I/O bandwidth; Up to 16GB/s in HyperTransport Generation 3.0 mode

Up to 37GB/s total delivered processor-to-system bandwidth (HyperTransport bus + memory bus)

A high-bandwidth, low-latency integrated memory controller

Supports up to DDR3-1866

Supports new low voltage memories of 1.35V and 1.2V

Up to 29.9GB/s memory bandwidth for DDR3

New Pre-Fetcher improvements

Direct communications to each core in Dual-Core module (APIC registers in each core)

Benefit: Optimized memory controller to feed more cores.

Silicon feature-set enhancements designed to improve the performance, reliability and security of existing and future virtualization environments by allowing virtualized applications with direct and rapid access to their allocated memory.

IOMMU is an extension to AMD64 architecture to support address translation and access protection on DMA transfers

Security for User Level application and Virtual Machine guest operating system



Address translation and access control





Device isolation





Device assignment in virtualized systems





Security and trusted boot support





Unified interrupt management

Benefit: Helps virtualization software to run more securely and efficiently enabling a better experience when dealing with virtual systems