AMD FX9590 Review

[tabuburn]

Kitguru has posted a review of AMD's 5GHz CPU, the FX-9590.

 

As far as gaming is concerned, it does pretty well but when it came to CPU intensive applications like 3D Rendering and Media Encoding, even on synthetics, they get beaten by a 4770K at stock speeds. That simulated Cinebench benchmark using the FX-8350 clocked at 5GHz was spot on though.

 

At the price point this thing is at, the 3930K/3960X/3970X would be a much better choice considering those CPU's dominated pretty much in the testing.

 

 

Source: http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/zardon/amd-fx9590-5ghz-review-w-gigabyte-990fxa-ud5/

[Darell3]

Hmmm. interesting. Thanks for the share!

[Kevinkt]

so its the same as a 8350 overclocked like everyone been saying? neat.

[Nort]

I don't know much about overclocking, so are all of those Intel CPUs at their max clock or are they at small overclocks? I wonder if the 9590 has any more room to overclock.

[Ultimate_PIMP]

If only someone would try and oc this thing... Fo real.

Does no one have the balls?

[Woodypc]

If only someone would try and oc this thing... Fo real.

Does no one have the balls?

Someone give me one and I will :)

 

Also my FX8120 @ 4.8 is faster then the one in the pic lol

[BgG286]

Why don't they have the 8350 up there?

[Humbug]

Some of the benchmarks don't seem to scale much with clockspeed... did excellent in the gaming section; although it's a bit too much to pay for a gaming CPU.

[Lyons]

What an absolute joke of a product. I always try to side with AMD as the underdog but at that price... no. $1050 here in Australia, no f*cking thank you.

[brownninja97]

This is a common pay to win product, you pay more and you get a 100% chance of winning the silicone lottery.

[tedjani]

here's the thing that i don't understand why is the price so expensive for that kind of cpu

i mean i don't mind paying 1000$ for intel core i7 3970x extreme cpu but 880$ for this come on COME OOOOONN

[Humbug]

If it does hit retail there is a niche group of extreme overclockers who will be willing to pay for this; because of the guarantee they are getting the very best binned chips.

[mgsstar]

Why is there no 4670K benchmark on it?

[Kuzma]

This can't be right? O.o because an 8350 @ 5 jiggahertz performs better than that?

[MegaDave91]

Would have liked to see how an overclocked 4670K stacks up.

[tabuburn]

This can't be right? O.o because an 8350 @ 5 jiggahertz performs better than that?

Actually, it's within the region of what the FX-8350 @ 5GHz performs.

 

Bit-tech did a benchmark of what a FX-8350 @ 4.8GHz performs. It got a Cinebench score of 8.25 @ 4.8GHz so a 5GHz one would be within in the 8.30-8.35 range just like where the FX-9590 is at.

[Ineko]

Haha, what a joke. Why would anyone buy this? You're not even getting the extra performance for the price, all the highly priced Intel chips beat it.

 

$1000 for this? *facepalm*

[TechFan@ic]

Going by Cinebench to determine the performance of an AMD CPU makes no sense what so ever, it's a heavily floating-point reliant benchmark, one area where AMD intentionally cut down from its CPUs because it's far more efficient to have it run on a parallel processor (GPU).

[FireFox]

I love how the Core i5-2500K isn't much behind that 5GHz waste of silicon for a quarter of the price (give or take), come on AMD what are you doing.

[TechFan@ic]

Also why haven't they tried over-clocking it ? that's the area I'm most interested in, I want to know how much over-clocking headroom is left in it.

[FireFox]

Also why haven't they tried over-clocking it ? that's the area I'm most interested in, I want to know how much over-clocking headroom is left in it.

 

I can't see them being able to push it further, already at 220w

[TechFan@ic]

I can't see them being able to push it further, already at 220w

A $115 AMD 970 motherboard can push up to 275W of TDP, so that's definitely not what could be considered a bottleneck.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/M5A97_EVO/13.html

 

 

[FireFox]

A $115 AMD 970 motherboard can push up to 275W of TDP, so that's definitely not what could be considered a bottleneck.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/M5A97_EVO/13.html

 

Fair enough, it would be more of my bottleneck because that is an insane amount of heat to kick out

[mr moose]

I remember when those graphs had AMD all at the top and intel struggling to punch half decent numbers.  Back in the days of the Winchester and Newcastle cores. 

[Ineko]

Going by Cinebench to determine the performance of an AMD CPU makes no sense what so ever, it's a heavily floating-point reliant benchmark, one area where AMD intentionally cut down from its CPUs because it's far more efficient to have it run on a parallel processor (GPU).

 

Cinebench or not, it's still a joke. $1000 for an 8350 at 5GHz? Hahaha.