cowboy44mag
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sarinaide :
Well the FX9590 has been met with rather muted acceptance but I think there are a few impressive features;
To run 5ghz across all 8 cores at the voltage needed and the total power used is actually good considering a 4.5ghz 3930K uses more power. On the benching side a lot of benches show it competitive with i7's and Intel Extreme processors and it cannot claim core advantage as the Extremes have 12 vs 8 threads so that aspect is impressive, one other feature I liked was that at 5.2ghz the most that HS/f used in the HWC benches could handle at those clocks the 9590 was around 15-20% faster than its baseclock speed so perhaps its reached that point where the massive clocks overcame the IPC limitations on the architecture.
Pricing wise its hard to knock AMD choosing that mark albeit I think maybe $500 and $330 respectively would have been better publicity but again these are not average joe chips.
To run 5ghz across all 8 cores at the voltage needed and the total power used is actually good considering a 4.5ghz 3930K uses more power. On the benching side a lot of benches show it competitive with i7's and Intel Extreme processors and it cannot claim core advantage as the Extremes have 12 vs 8 threads so that aspect is impressive, one other feature I liked was that at 5.2ghz the most that HS/f used in the HWC benches could handle at those clocks the 9590 was around 15-20% faster than its baseclock speed so perhaps its reached that point where the massive clocks overcame the IPC limitations on the architecture.
Pricing wise its hard to knock AMD choosing that mark albeit I think maybe $500 and $330 respectively would have been better publicity but again these are not average joe chips.
Considering the large changes in architecture coming with steamroller can you imagine what an enthusiast Steamroller FX chip will be? With the Pildedriver architecture the 9590 is able to achieve 5.0-5.2 GHz overclock on all 8 cores, if you can hit better clocks with the substantial improvements to IPC.... that would really be awesome. Even though an enthusiast level Steamroller FX chip would be very, very impressive I doubt I would shell out $800+ for one. For my needs the 9590 is already overkill
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