AMD processors in gaming

[Fixadent]

Do high-end AMD processors give any decent performance in PC gaming?

The AMD FX 9590 supposedly outperforms the Intel flagship in a few games like Doom 2016.

 

[Kavinqt]

The FX 9590 gets EXTREMELY hot, I do not recommend FX series for gaming. The IPC (Instruction's per clock) is garbage on the FX series and will bottleneck your GPU in many CPU intensive games, I recommend waiting for Ryzen benchmarks to come out and make a decision on if you want to go Ryzen side, From what I'm seeing Ryzen is looking pretty promising. But for sure I would not get a FX processor for gaming in 2017 especially with many new CPU's about to get released from AMD.

 

[firo40]

The 9590 doesn't beat the 7700k in any game benchmark. The only AMD cpu that has a chance at competing with Intel flagship cpu's is Ryzen based cpu's being released at the beginning of march

 

[mdsiu]

Wait 2 more weeks for Ryzen AMD chips to come out.

 

[Strixie]

 

[sizzling]

In Doom it doesn't matter but you can see the FX9590 sits around i3 performance http://www.techspot.com/review/1173-doom-benchmarks/page5.html


In other games the FX9590 falls even further behind http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2182-fallout-4-cpu-benchmark-huge-performance-difference


The FX9590 is somewhere between a modern i3 and i5

 

[synphul]

Until ryzen chips are actually available retail there's only speculation on price and performance. The leaks may be accurate or they may not be. Official benchmarks and testing will follow once they hit store shelves. Even if those are msrp prices verified somewhere other than a 'leaked source' it doesn't always dictate what people will pay at the register. We've seen that with gpu's that were supposed to be one price and on release were priced a good $20-30+ above 'msrp'.

Current amd processors game ok but rarely are they considered 'high end'. They simply lack the ipc which is what ryzen sets out to change. I would agree that the fx 9590 is one of the worst cpu's of all time in terms of price/performance, stability, heat, motherboard requirements to run stable ($$$), cooling and so on. By the time you got a decent enough cooler and motherboard to handle a 9590 you could have chosen an unlocked i5 or i7 and broke even or possibly saved money vs the 9590 while easily outperforming it.

 

[Fixadent]

Will Ryzen be able to compete with the i7?

 

[Kavinqt]

Will Ryzen be able to compete with the i7?

From everything out currently it really seems like the R7 1700x and r7 1800x will.