The AMD FX Chips Don’t Suck (Anymore)?

Previously, I thought of AMD’s FX series of CPUs to be complete and utter garbage. High cost, low single threaded performance, and multi threaded performance that was impossible to take advantage of at the time it was released. However, after a good 6 years, the AMD FX series are not that bad of a buy. For one, the price was lowered so much since launch that it can be bought at ridiculously cheap prices. The most common chip, the FX-8350, goes for less than a Ryzen 2200G today. Of course, it’s old technology, but it still has some fight left in it. As applications today are becoming more optimized for multi threaded workloads, the FX series, notorious for the abysmal single threaded performance but strong multi threaded performance, are actually starting to speed up. Although the single core performance isn’t great, that isn’t what matters in the long run; as we have hit physical limits to clock speeds and are experiencing diminishing returns, the future is all about multi threaded performance. In my opinion, the ideology of the FX series was too early for its time, but because now developers are starting to optimize for multi threaded workloads, the FX Series have aged quite well and can still be used for a few more years before they die.