Closer Look:
Built on the same 32nm process as the previous generation, the FX-8350 is the enthusiast flagship of the Vishera offerings sporting the first ever 4.0GHz stock clocked CPU on the market. The FX-8350 is equipped with four Piledriver modules and eight cores in an 125W TDP. While the base clock speed is 4.0GHz, the Turbo will take this up to 4.2GHz when load dictates. The 315mm² die packs 1.2 billion transistors and an IMC that supports 1866MHz memory natively in dual channel mode. The FX-8350 has 8MB of L2 cache as well as 8MB of shared L3 cache