Specifications

Features

The FX 8320E has an unlocked multiplier which means that you can squeeze more performance out of the chip depending on your motherboard/memory combination, your cooling choice and the famous silicon lottery. Also note the 8-core package for handling multithreaded applications.

AMD has included the following instruction capabilities

• AVX – Advanced Vector Extensions increase parallelism for scientific and 3D apps using heavy floating point calculations
• FMA4 and XOP – Floating-Point Vector Multiply-Accumulate and eXtended Operations improves throughput and performance on many integer and floating point vector functions
• AES – Advanced Encryption Standard increases performance on encryption apps like TrueCrypt® and PCMark®

AMD Turbo CORE Technology

• AMD FX Processors come equipped with AMD Turbo CORE Technology.
• AMD Turbo CORE Technology is a performance boosting technology that helps increase performance on the applications that need it the most.

AMD Balanced Smart Cache

• Shared L3 cache ( up to 8MB)
• Improved scheduling and pre-fetch capabilities
• 64-ways (16-ways/sub-cache)
• Increased data queue sizes
• Coherency for 8-cores

AMD Wide Floating Point Accelerator

• Shared FP Scheduler
• Dual 128-bit Floating point engines – capable of teaming together for 256-bit AVX instructions or operating separately with each core

HyperTransport™ Technology

• One 16-bit link at up to 5600MT/s
• Up to 8.0GB/s HyperTransport™ I/O bandwidth; Up to 16GB/s in HyperTransport Generation 3.0 mode
• Up to 37GB/s total delivered processor-to-system bandwidth (HyperTransport bus + memory bus)
• Benefit: Quick access times to system I/O for better performance.

Integrated DRAM Controller with AMD Memory Optimizer Technology

• A high-bandwidth, low-latency integrated memory controller
• Supports up to DDR3-1866
• Supports new low voltage memories of 1.35V and 1.2V
• Up to 29.9GB/s memory bandwidth for DDR3
• New Pre-Fetcher improvements
• Direct communications to each core in Dual-Core module (APIC registers in each core)
• Benefit: Optimized memory controller to feed more cores.

AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™) Technology with IOMMU

• Silicon feature-set enhancements designed to improve the performance, reliability and security of existing and future virtualization environments by allowing virtualized applications with direct and rapid access to their allocated memory.
• IOMMU is an extension to AMD64 architecture to support address translation and access protection on DMA transfers
• Security for User Level application and Virtual Machine guest operating system
• Address translation and access control
• Device isolation
• Device assignment in virtualized systems
• Security and trusted boot support
• Unified interrupt management
• Benefit: Helps virtualization software to run more securely and efficiently enabling a better experience when dealing with virtual systems

AMD PowerNow!™ AMD Technology (Cool’n’Quiet™ Technology)

• Enhanced power management features which automatically and instantaneously adjusts performance states and features based on processor performance requirements
• C6 power state flushes the cache and removes voltage from individual cores to help reduce power consumption
• CC6 power state puts all cores in C6 into an even lower power state
• for quieter operation and reduced power requirements
• Separate memory controller power control
• IO-based c-state interface
• Works automatically without the need for drivers or BIOS enablement.
• Power can be switched on or off within a single clock cycle, saving energy with minimal impact to performance
• Benefit: Helps users get more efficient performance by dynamically activating or turning off parts of the processor.