While we were quite impressed with AMD's recent announcement of the 5GHz FX-9590 CPU, we were quite disappointed that it will only be heading to OEM and system builder hands and even more disappointed by the rumored high price of the CPU. Thankfully, a user from VR-Zone forums managed to get its hands on one and show some impressive benchmark numbers.

Despite its enormous price of close to US $1000 and an incredibly high 220W TDP, the FX-9590 certainly packs a punch by even getting close to Intel's Core i7-4770K at stock clocks. Of course, since the CPU was forced to work at 5GHz on all eight cores by disabling AMD's Turbo Core 3.0, the stock FX-9590 should be significantly slower but then again such CPU is meant for overclocking and not playing at stock values.

The voltage gets up to a high 1.513V when it clocks to 5GHz while it runs at 1.4GHz at 0.875V in idle. The results are quite impressive as it managed to score 8.62 points in Cinebench R11.5, 9249KB/s in WinRAR, 27127 in 3DMark Vantage, 8529 physics score in 3DMark 11, 9571 physics score in 3DMark Fire Strike and some other benchmarks were not far away either.

AMD FX-9590 sounds like a great CPU but the high price and incredibly high TDP certainly puts it in the enthusiasts part of the market and it will be interesting to see how far it could actually go.







Source: VR-Zone.com.