Cooling and Power

I couldn’t do our testing without also checking out the cooling and power testing, especially with this being one of AMDs lower wattage CPUs with the E at the end and its 95 watt TDP. So how did that help its power usage? Well our test bench pulled a total of 118 watts with the CPU under load using wPrime and 83 watts at idle. This is still higher than what Intels latest CPUs are doing but a noticeable improvement over the other FX based AMD CPUs, nearly on par with the A10-6700. As for temperature performance though the FX-8320E it ran cooler than anything else tested at 41 degrees.