After steadily losing ground to Intel year after year in performance, they needed to gain some more ground in multithreaded workloads, and the FX series was supposed to do just that. It was AMD’s ...

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In 2003, AMD debuted the Opteron, its first 64-bit CPU, which was later renamed Athlon 64. Phenom processors came out in 2008. In 2017, AMD began shipping its Ryzen line based on a new Zen ...