Three New AMD FX CPUs Will Arrive This Month or the Next

Even though people are looking forward towards the second generation AMD FX chips, assuming they aren't too distracted by the delayed (or not) Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs, there are some other units on the way. 

There are three new central processing units from Advanced Micro Devices closing in on retail stores, according to a leaked slide. 

Before anyone gets too excited, though, the units in question aren't exactly revolutionary, being part of the first-generation instead of the upcoming second one. 

In other words, before the Sunnyvale, California-based CPU, GPU and APU maker gets around to launching the Vishera FX models, at least three more Zambezi will appear. 

They are called FX-8140, FX-6120 and FX-4150 and will probably be launched in March, 2012 (next month). 

The prices, unfortunately, have not been disclosed, but the specs, at least, managed to surface. Well, the most relevant of them anyway. 

FX-4150, as the weakest of the trio, features four cores, each working at a base frequency of 3.9 GHz and a Turbo Core rating of 4.1 GHz. 

The second unit, FX-6120, can reach the same Turbo Core level as above, even though its six cores function at 3.5 GHz normally. 

As for the FX-8140, it is a strong, 8-core central processor (4 modules) whose base frequency is of 3.2 GHz and whose maximum Turbo Core performance is of, again, 4.1 GHz. 

All three newcomers draw 95W of energy, though it may be possible for the 8-core to come in a 125W variant as well. 

If anything, this shows that AMD is not about to back out of the processor segment, even if it has stopped bothering with trying to outmatch Intel on the high-end front. 

Finally, the FX-4150 boasts 12 MB of cache memory, while the FX-6120 comes with 14 MB and the FX-8140 has 16 MB.

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