Almost 3 years ago, AMD released the first FX CPUs featuring the Bulldozer architecture; we sadly know how that went. In mid 2012, AMD refreshed the FX line with the new Piledriver architecture. The Piledriver cores provided a better performance level than its predecessor and has been with us since. Then in 2013, AMD finally brought out the big guns with the FX 9590, its fastest out of the box CPUs with a clock speed of 5GHz.

This brings us to 2014 and AMD's release of 3 new FX offerings, the FX 8320, FX 8370E and FX 8370. All three offer 8-cores and lower TDP than the previous 8-core FX chips. AMD is targeting users with 4- and 6-core FX chips with an upgrade to 8 cores, without the need for a new high-end motherboard. The question is... how do these lower TDP 8-core FX chips perform?

This review will try to answer that, so read on!