Reviewers Liked
- Improved performance and power consumption
- Reasonably priced
- Appreciable performance improvements with multicore-optimized software
- Compatible with older AMD socket and motherboards
- Eight cores and 5GHz on your desktop computer
- Officially supports DDR31866 memory
- Better performance than Intel on multithreaded tasks
- An FX system has 38 usable PCIE lanes as opposed to the 24 lanes of a Sandy Bridge system
- Piledriver CPU core design
- Improved "Per Clock" performance
- Compatible with existing AM3 products
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Still lags Intel in important areas like gaming
- Uses much more power than comparable Intel chips, which also have on-chip graphics
- Single core performance still lags far behind Intel
- Few programs use new FX instructions like fused multiply add
- Same maximum TDP as previous products
- Perhaps a bit late to the market
- It still uses 32nm while Intel is on 22nm
- Higher power consumption than Intel products
- "Low" but adequate single threaded performance will not appeal to some