Sunday, July 7th 2013
AMD FX-9590 5 GHz Processor Benchmarks Surface, Great Performance At A Price
Eagerly waiting to see how the so-called 5 GHz processor from camp AMD performs in the real world? Well, some lucky user over at VR-Zone forums got a chance to get this hands dirty with the yet-to-be on sale AMD FX-9590 processor, and decided to post his benchmark scores with all of us (much to our joy).
While the performance of AMD's fastest and hottest babe till date is no-doubt good, it comes at the price of an exorbitantly high 220W TDP, and of course a near $1000 price tag (if reports turn out to be 100% true). The CPU vCore is running at a high 1.5v, but then again we've always seen AMD chips operate at higher voltages than their Intel counterparts. No doubt, despite all this, system builders are going to have a gala time going ape over the 5 GHz FX-9590.
More results follow.
Source:
VR-Zone Forums
While the performance of AMD's fastest and hottest babe till date is no-doubt good, it comes at the price of an exorbitantly high 220W TDP, and of course a near $1000 price tag (if reports turn out to be 100% true). The CPU vCore is running at a high 1.5v, but then again we've always seen AMD chips operate at higher voltages than their Intel counterparts. No doubt, despite all this, system builders are going to have a gala time going ape over the 5 GHz FX-9590.
258 Comments on AMD FX-9590 5 GHz Processor Benchmarks Surface, Great Performance At A Price
The Power6 isn't in the commercial desktop arena.
Whereas the IBM Power6, is only available a small audience. You wouldn't find it in a etailer and even if you wanted one IBM wouldn't answer the phone to you.
Let's hope they succeed on their high frequency quest or they move on, which would be better.
According to you, then all Intel i7s are octacore with Hyper Threading.
And whether its a quad core or octacore, I don't care. It is clearly seen that its performance is not upto the mark. Just imagine an i7 at 5 GHz. It will literally eat the FX 9590. And as for Intel's overclocking, they are good enough. They just don't brag about overclock this and overclock that.
And I am not a fanboy. I am an AMD user myself but this new FX series just didn't impress me enough.EXACTLY!
I suspect Haswell refresh won't do anything to change this. Most we can expect from Intel is the a shift to mainstream (~340$) of six-core i7 CPUs, on IB-E, for 2014. Otherwise, for 2014, Kaveri and it's possible refresh/succesor might be the only worthwile new face in the x86 scene.
The pricing might be stupid, but all in all, I can understand AMD's move, and if it brings them a little more revenue, good for them.
Yes, 4 modules, 2 core per module is 8 core. But those 8 cores generate the same amount of heat as a traditional CPU design. So regardless of the dispute about whether its a traditional 8 core, AMD octocores generate heat on each core under stress.
The i7, is only a quad core. HTT is only virtual, a virtual way of manipulating threads. But its still a quad core and could never output as much heat as an physical 8 core CPU.
So going back to my original point, how can a virtual core, which doesn't exist (HTT) be at the same TDP rating as AMD's 8 physical cores. The fact that AMD achieved that feat with real cores really paints AMD in a positive light.Hyperthreading is not a core, its a virtual core at best, in reality its just a Intel patented "technique" - Computer hardware 101
The FX range are real cores, the only grey area is it breaks the traditional design, as the location of the cores and how it shares its cache memory has been radicalised. But it's real cores regardless of it's makeup and deployment - Computer hardware 102.The Core 2 Quads were real quad cores. They had 4 physical cores, thus quad core in every sense. Yes the early Core 2 Quads were two Core 2 Duos glued together, but regardless of how it was packaged it had 4 physical cores, hence quad core - Computer hardware 103.
Not everyone is a tech enthusiast, these chips weren't made for most of us @ TPU and other fine communities. Except maybe the extreme OC guys.
Why pick fights over a chip? If you don't want it, don't buy it. Maybe TPU should start banning trolls in the news and reviews sections of the site like some other communities do.