AMD Centurion FX-9590 5 GHz Processor Gets Previewed – Comes Close to Core i7-4770K

AMD released their FX-9590 and FX-9370 processors at E3 2013 which brought 5 GHz native clock speeds to consumers for the very first time. The new AMD FX 5 GHz processors are supposed to be limited edition and would only be available through OEM PCs manufacturer’s.

[Need4Game]

Rather buying high engh CPU & GPU separately, AMD should just do high-end APU, 16 core Jaguar Cpu + Radeon 7970 gpu that'll be nice.

[jeffgoldwin]

There's no games using over 4 cores atm. Why would you think 16 core would be so awesome, because its a large number? It's like these people who buy 32gb of ram because maybe 5-10 years down the road it might be relevant to gaming.

[zebramocha]

I thought CPU were unnecessary after a certain amount of cores,if you needed parallelism then use a gpu,though an APu with 7970 or comparable card sounds interesting.

[Need4Game]

Many people play with CAD, Media Editing, 3D Game Development.

Playing with CAD can fill up 32gb ram, My CAD play already almost max out 128gb ram of my ram.

Other people called it jobs. xD

[CGI-Quality]

Having 32GB of RAM doesn't hurt, even if it isn't needed [right now]. Who gives a damn what someone thinks about it? Your life won't end because someone wants more cores and/or RAM.

[ABizzel1]

@jeff

Because games will start using 8 cores very soon with PS4 and X1 hitting the market this holiday, so 16 core is the logical step for PC's, although there's no real need for it as you say. Any contemporary high-end AMD CPU will be more than enough to run PC games for the 5+ years.

Now taking this CPU and a HD 7990 and you have yourself a beastly gaming PC and a small home heater.

[jeffgoldwin]

"Many people play with CAD, Media Editing, 3D Game Development"

Very few use that compared to those using gaming pc's for you know, gaming. Plus I did specify for gaming, if you want to go ahead and reread that part.

Geez you people are so sensitive I have to write a 10 page paper to address what if's, and special case possibilities.

Nothing wrong with adding 32 gb when you only need 4-6gb for now for GAMING (not address CAD, servers, or w/e else some guy somewhere will come up with an exception. Isnt this mostly a gaming site last I checked?). But you will put more heat, more electricity, and spend more for all the ram for GAMING that isn't necessary atm. Ok gunna beat someone else here to the punch line with a 5-6k budget: maybe for 4k resolutions and 3 monitors. IDK not my thing.

[RIP_Cell]

no you don't want an APU on a gaming PC, and on a laptop a 7970 just uses too much power.

[jeffgoldwin]

Vast majority of laptop gpu's will use the letter "M" at the end of the card which means it sips less power, runs cooler and is less powerful than the desktop counter part. EX: 7970M.

Maybe you already knew that, but for someone that didn't, that's how she works.

[zeal0us]

For a gaming PC, I rather have high-end CPU & GPU than some unrealistic APU. Beside APUs really aren't that great for gaming(PC-wise not talking about consoles), bottleneck can become a problem.

[aixao]

Not yet, AMD-APU-HSA-HUMA would forgone wasteful redundant memory, and bottleneck between GPU & CPU, with unified Memory Architecture. That'll have to wait until DDR4 comes out.

One APU, One Heatsink, Unified Memory, Less Power Cables, simpler PC components.

Better for Software & Game Developer to make better Software & Game.

[jeffgoldwin]

@aixao

All that stuff you mentioned about unified next-gen console parts is all theoretical as to how much performance we will see. We really don't know yet.

Please do present unknown things like it's a proven fact, when it is not: "One APU, One Heatsink, Unified Memory, Less Power Cables, simpler PC components. Better for Software & Game Developer to make better Software & Game"

[DeadlyFire]

APU max is 4 cores at the moment with so many GPU cores. Still though on a PC a CPU + a standalone GPU would work fine for the same purpose. PC needs heavier CPU cores than Jaguar due to the OS like Windows with such bulk stress it puts on hardware.

APUs just add some GPU cores to the formula. Say 4 core APU + GPU and vs CPU + GPU so one gets an extra boost with those extra GPU cores. Could work better than Crossfire/SLI in the future.

AMD and NVIDIA, and Intel are all aiming to do low, mid, and High end APUs. For the most part the high end APUs won't start rolling out for another couple of years. 2015 is pretty much the barrier when APUs start to take over. AMD could be the first one. We could see a 1 Tflop APU with 4 Piledriver cores and 10 or so CU by end of 2014. NVIDIA has an ARM APU coming as well. Intel's Haswell has 1 Tflop of GPU on it. Its Intel's own design though so its not perfect. They are improving though.

[stragomccloud]

There are so many better apu architectures than Jaguar. Why limit yourself to a mobile design?

[Pope_Kaz_Hirai_II]

Its not a bad option for newcomers but i will stick to my 3770k and 680 lightning.

[Letros]

A $900 CPU is not a bad options for newcomers? Hope you're not building any PC's for friends...

[jeffgoldwin]

Agreed $900 is too low end for me to want to use it. Maybe for some starving college kids or high school kids on a tight allowance I suppose.

[AuToFiRE]

You must be new to custom PCs..

[Letros]

@AuToFiRE

These CPUs are made for record setting overclockers, not gamers.

[FantasyStar]

Damn, I got my hopes up that this would be the new Steamroller CPUs we've been waiting for. I suppose if there's a market for this: I could toss this into my rendering-farm.

[DeadlyFire]

They are coming soon enough. This shows strong promise for a new high end AMD push either way. Could see some real results in a year or two.

AMD Richland's top APU performs pretty well for gaming at 720p over Intel's integrated graphics in the i7-4700 series.

[mmj]

It's nothing but a trophy processor of what Bulldozer should have been to begin with, "close to 4770K" performance for the price of a 3960X? lmao! is anyone seriously going to waste their money on this turkey?

[kwyjibo]

AMD are going to release their CPU refresh later this year, with Steamroller on desktop and Jaguar on laptops.

If you want AMD, now is not the time.

[KontryBoy706]

I still can't justify a need to leave my i5 3570K and EVGA 670 FTW. We will see how BF4 The Witcher 3 and Watch Dogs perform first

[FlyingFoxy]

AMD make good graphics cards but are a bit behind when it comes to processors, this is why i shifted straight to i7 as soon as it released in late 2008. For gaming, newer processors aren't much faster in frame rates if you check any recent benchmarks, the main benefit is that they can overclock more.

Even if you pair an original i7 with a fast graphics card you still get pretty much top notch fps, newer processors are about 30% or so faster at best. i7 920 is a beast to last this long.

[RedDeadLB]

Close but no cigar @ 5GHz and 8 cores? Tough break AMD, tough break.

[Goodfella78]

Overclock my fx 8350 to 5ghz = AMD fx-9590 5 GHz......cool(but not literally)......

[Isis06]

I wan't one of those... do you think its possible to use a good air cooler and achieve 5Ghz?

[Goodfella78]

5ghz for the fx 8350 is pretty easily achieavable got mine overclocked on air using a xigmatek gaia cooler with 2 push pull configuaration fans hooked up too the said cooler,its a beast my friend get one if you can,you wont be disapointed......