Much ado about nothing? The fact is that the test sample of the FX-8370E cuts a much better figure in terms of actual power consumption compared to an older FX CPU at the same clock rate, although the performance is very similar. However, we have to add that we don’t know if we got a specially selected sample from AMD, if the FX-8370E is really significantly better, or if the series dispersion is simply so big that such differences arise.
We can only attest a significant improvement to the CPU explicitly tested by us, but still put a question mark at the end.
On the other hand, as far as the direct comparison between the FX processors in general and the FX-8370E in particular with the similarly positioned Intel equivalents in each case is concerned, nothing has improved. Once again, you can see that AMD has not invested in any real innovations in this model, but merely serves the old ingredients a bit more attractively and appetizingly.
Conclusion
The FX-8370E is not a bad or unusable CPU per se, as you get quite acceptable and usable results in some areas. However, the direct comparison with the competitor reveals the weaknesses of the meanwhile very gray architecture very clearly, so that it could actually only be sold palatably via the price. Exactly here we come to the actual problem, because the advertised MSRP list price of probably 199 US dollars is actually much too high compared to the actually available performance, if that should turn out to be true. In any case, the first few entries in price comparison services list it with prices of just under 190 Euros – and that would be much too much for the given performance.
Do we remember our introductory words? So we’d better let the street decide on the price and thus the sense or nonsense of this offer. Because we currently can’t.
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