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AMD FX-8320E CPU Review @ LanOC Reviews

January 8, 2015 Comments Off

This past September AMD introduced a refresh of their FX CPUs that included a few new more power efficient CPUs along with a major pricing restructure to update the lineup. While I had the chance to test out most of the lineup there were a few that weren’t included. Recently AMD sent over one […]

AMD FX-8320E AM3+ Processor Performance Review @ Benchmark Reviews

January 6, 2015 Comments Off

AMD released a slew of new FX-series CPUs in September, 2014, including the FX-8370, FX-8370E, and the subject of our review, the FX-8320E. This is the low end of AMD’s eight-core FX series of enthusiast CPUs, and the “E” suffix marks it as a low-power variant; nonetheless, AMD touts it as a viable CPU […]

AMD A10 7800 ‘Non-K’ Kaveri APU Review @ HardwareBBQ

January 5, 2015 Comments Off

The AMD A10-7800 is a locked Kaveri quad core with (with 8x GPU core) base clocked at 3.5GHz with turbo up to 3.9GHz. If you need an unlocked processor, there’s the 3.4GHz variant 7700K and the 7850K which is clocked at 3.7GHz. The TDP is of 65w. This APU was out at the end of […]

AMD Catalyst Linux OpenGL Driver Now Faster Than Windows Driver In Some Tests @ Phoronix

January 2, 2015 Comments Off

Summary: "Earlier this week I showed benchmarks of AMD’s incredible year for their open-source Linux driver and how the open-source Radeon Gallium3D driver moved closer to performance parity with Catalyst. One of the lingering questions though is how does the Catalyst 14.12 Omega Linux driver from December compare to the latest Catalyst Windows driver? Here’s […]