14 DAY TRIAL // Almost two weeks after the introduction of AMD's first FX-Series processors based on the Bulldozer architecture, the FX-6100 and FX-4100 CPUs have now started to make their appearance into stock at various retailers across Europe.
Even though officially launched, the chips have been missing from the stores shelves as the Sunnyvale-based chip maker has concentrated its efforts on making available the eight-core FX-8150 and X-8120 processors.
This situation will however soon change as SweClockers reports the first batch of FX-6100 and FX-4100 CPUs made its way into German stores, while in Sweden these will arrive sometime later this week.
The FX-6100 and FX-4100 pack six and four computing cores respectively, come with support for AMD's Turbo Core technology, have an unlocked multiplier and both chips feature a of 95W TDP.
The six cores included in the FX-6100 are clocked at 3.3GHz and these can reach 3.6GHz when all are in use or a maximum of 3.9GHz when only three cores are active, while the FX-4100 is clocked at 3.6GHz and features a 3.8GHz maximum Turbo speed.
In order to be able to compete with Intel, AMD also dropped the price of the FX-8150, which since its introduction lost about 14% from its initial MSRP.
AMD launched the first FX-Series processors based on the Bulldozer architecture on October 12, but despite being eagerly awaited by many PC enthusiasts the performance of the chips has disappointed.
In most tests that were run by reviewers, AMD's FX-8150, lagged behind the Intel's Core i5-2500K, while a few tests showed it coming behind even a last-gen Phenom II X6 1100T processor.
In order to fix some of these performance issues, AMD is apparently working on developing a B3 stepping of the Bulldozer architecture that should get launched later this year.
