AMD FX8350 BE / Gigabyte HD7970 / ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2 Review

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There is no doubt the FX 8350 is faster than the FX 8150, although we would expect it to be, given the clock speed advantage. That said, when both processors are clocked to 4.6ghz, the FX 8350 scores 7.56 points against the FX8150's  7.32 points. Not a massive difference, but clearly the architectural changes help boost performance.

If you own a Core i7 2600k from the previous Intel generation, you will be happy with these scores. The 2600k 4 core HT enabled chip outperforms the FX8350 by a noticeable margin at the same clock speeds (9.05 v 7.56 points at 4.6ghz).

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