Three years ago AMD released the FX 8320 CPU featuring a 3.50 GHz base operating frequency that could go to a turbo mode of 4.00 GHZ for one core, or 3.75 GHZ for all cores, with a Thermal Design Power (TDP) of 125W. Realizing that some users wanted a lower TDP processor with the parameters of the FX 8320, AMD introduced the FX 8320E back in early September 2014. Featuring a 3.20 GHZ base clock, the FX 8320E could reach a 4.00 GHZ turbo mode for one core (3.60 GHZ for all cores) with a TDP of only 95W. This lower TDP allowed users to leverage the FX 8320E processor in small form factor setups or HTPC media centers with a lower cooling requirement.

With the FX processor line also come new instruction sets like Advance Vector Extensions (AVX) to increase parallelism for scientific and 3D applications, Floating-Point Vector Multiply-Accumulate (FMA4) and eXtended Operations (XOP) for improved floating point vector operations, and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for performance increases on encryption applications. AMD also incorporated the AMD Turbo CORE Technology with performance enhancing technologies to speed up the system whenever an application needs a boost in performance.