which AMD is the equivalent to i5-4590?

[revenger681]

I'm running a compatibility test for Oculus Rift running on my pc. I used a tool from Nvidia and it says my pc is good to go, but the Oculus tool says my CPU is not up to par.

Which AMD Processor is equivalent to an i5-4590?
For their "highest" level experience they recommend a i5-6400. So: Which is equivalent to the 6400?

Oddly enough, with the info available, I browsed their "oculus ready pc's" list. and found my pc available to buy, lol. It's rated at their mid-range pc. So I am thinking this is a bug in their testing tool anyways and my AMD 8370 will do just fine (though I am considering upgrading to the 9590.)

 

[TechyInAZ]

Please don't make the mistake of getting the FX 9590...

The i5 4590 is still faster than the fx 8370, that should tell you how old the FX lineup is. However, on a heavy multithreaded stress test, the fx 8370 should match (barely).

I suggest overclocking the thing as high as it can go. It's about the only way to make it equal or even competitive against Haswell/Skylake.

 

[revenger681]

Please don't make the mistake of getting the FX 9590...

The i5 4590 is still faster than the fx 8370, that should tell you how old the FX lineup is. However, on a heavy multithreaded stress test, the fx 8370 should match (barely).

I suggest overclocking the thing as high as it can go. It's about the only way to make it equal or even competitive against Haswell/Skylake.

Nice info. But my question was which amd cpu's are the equivalents of the Intel processors I listed.

 

[TechyInAZ]

Well, none LOL. The only CPUs that would come close would be the FX 9590 (which is a OCed version of the 8370, 8350, 8320 and nothing more).

 

[rockstarfish]

AMD A10-7870K

 

[Ecky]

Arguably none. All AMD CPUs have greatly inferior single-threaded performance (which is important in a lot of cases), but have higher core counts, and so are closer to competitive in situations where what you're doing can make use of all of the cores. The 8-core FX-8xxx chips were released in 2012, and were lined up against Intel's 4-core 8-thread i7's at the time. They received a lot of flak for being (generally) slower than Intel's chips, while drawing more power. AMD hasn't released a new 8-core CPU since then, though they have higher clocked revisions (like the FX-9xxx), while Intel has released 4 more generations of CPUs with incrementally better performance each generation. Because of this, the 2012-era FX-8 CPUs are still sold, but they're priced against Intel's i3s (dual core).

AMD has released some new designs for their low-end 4-core CPUs (on different sockets), but these are still well behind Intel's offerings core-per-core. Their selling point is that they often come with much better integrated GPUs, which you probably won't be interested in. They're fair competitors against Celerons and Pentiums, and situationally, i3's, but don't compete with more expensive chips in Intel's lineup.

In short, if you're looking for an upgrade from your FX-8, you're not going to find much from AMD. They haven't been releasing any new high-end chips for the past 4 years.

 

[Karadjgne]

Fx 8370 OC @4.6+ GHz would be close in performance, but you are trying to compare apples to shoes.