AMD FX-8350 (AM3+) Piledriver Processor Review

Cinebench R11.5

CINEBENCH is a real-world cross platform test suite that evaluates your computer’s performance capabilities. CINEBENCH is based on MAXON’s award-winning animation software CINEMA 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. MAXON software has been used in blockbuster movies such as Spider-Man, Star Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia and many more. CINEBENCH is the perfect tool to compare CPU and graphics performance across various systems and platforms (Windows and Mac OS X). And best of all: It’s completely free.

Getting the ball rolling with Cinebench, we can see the FX- 8350 performing better than its predecessor at stock and also performing better than the i5 3570k from Intel. When overclocked, we saw the performance jump up past the levels of a stock performing i7 3770k and not to far away behind the i7 3960X.

Clearly the FX-8350 is made for intensive rendering work if this test is anything to go by.

Super PI

Super PI is a computer program that calculates pi to a specified number of digits after the decimal point—up to a maximum of 32 million. It uses Gauss–Legendre algorithm and is a Windows port of the program used by Yasumasa Kanada in 1995 to compute pi to 232 digits.

Keeping with the intensive tests, we move over to calculations and see the 8350 sadly at the bottom of the pile with the slowest time at 23 minutes and 21 seconds. Even the 8150 managed to push ahead and while the overclock to 5.1GHz did help, it didn’t manage to push ahead of any of the Intel based processors that we tested.