Continuing to build upon their Athlon X4 lineup, AMD released the Athlon X4 880K CPU on March 1st, 2016, positioning it with a 4.0 GHz base operating frequency and a turbo mode frequency of 4.2 GHz. Packaged with a "near silent" heatsink featuring four heatpipes and a thermal dissipation rating of 125W (identical to the AMD Wraith thermal solution but without the shroud or LED logo), the Athlon X4 880K is designed to provide higher performance than previous Athlon X4 models along with smoother video performance when paired with a quality graphics card.

Based on the Godavari core using 0.028 micron technology, the newest lineup of Athlon X4 CPUs have a low 95 watt Thermal Design Power (TDP). With the aforementioned thermal solution included in the retail versions of the unlocked CPU, users have some headroom for mild overclocking out of the box without the added expense of an aftermarket heatsink installation.

Today I am going to test the Athlon X4 880K CPU on an Gigabyte F2A88X-UP4 motherboard provided by AMD with two different sets of 16GB DDR3 RAM: one set at 1600 MHz and the other at 2133 MHz. Then I'll compare those results to the AMD FX-4350 CPU on an MSI 970 Gaming Motherboard with the same set of 16 GB DDR3 memory models at 1600 MHz, which should show how the two different CPUs compare with the same RAM set against the Athlon X4 880K performance at its maximum design 2133 MHz RAM frequency.