AMD Unleashes First-Ever 5 GHz Processor

[prudhivisekhar]

AMD today unveiled its most powerful member of the legendary AMD FX family of CPUs, the world’s first commercially available 5 GHz CPU processor, the AMD FX-9590. These 8-core CPUs deliver new levels of gaming and multimedia performance for desktop enthusiasts. AMD FX-9000 Series CPUs will be available initially in PCs through system integrators.

Source : AMD Unleashes First-Ever 5 GHz Processor

 

[Allu Azad]

Great

 

[rajnusker]

Good job AMD. Old news.

 

[Nerevarine]

AMD needs to go for better performance/clock speed ratio than just blindly more clock speed every generation..

 

[prudhivisekhar]

Good job AMD. Old news.

News may be old , but in this section, its new

 

[flyingcow]

Is it just a 8350 OC'ed or much more performance differences?

 

[dan4u]

Is it just a 8350 OC'ed or much more performance differences?

its an overclocked 8000 series, using same piledriver architecture.

 

[kg11sgbg]

AMD's true potential will be unleashed with HSA...
For budget buyers waiting for KAVERI is worth.

 

[Extreme Gamer]

I'm going to see how it performs vs. Haswell before commenting. If it is cheaper than the 4770k but gives similar performance, then I will go for it.