A day or two ago I showed your this twitter photo from AMD's vice president of channel sales Roy Taylor showed a photo of a box with a new FX processor. The SKU indicates that the CPU is paired with liquid cooling. It is now confirmed that the processors is not new, but in fact the 8-core AMD FX-9590 Flagship Piledriver Processor. The product will now be released in retail likely for a much better price and with liquid cooling.
The processor was the first to achieve the 5 GHz core frequency as a standard operating clock speed however was met with criticism due to a price of $999 US and a 220W TDP. The FX-9590 processor packs 8 cores and 8 threads with 8 MB of L3 cache, core clock of 4.7 GHz and boost clock of 5.0 GHz.
The highly (over) clocked FX-8350 Vishera-processor has a rather spicy 220W TDP is thus being re-launched, this time for the complete kit at At $360 USD.
AMD FX-9590 | AMD FX-9370 | AMD FX-8350 | |
---|---|---|---|
Architecture | Piledriver | Piledriver | Piledriver |
Family | Vishera | Vishera | Vishera |
Manufacture | 32 nm SOI HKMG | 32 nm SOI HKMG | 32 nm SOI HKMG |
Cores | 8 pcs. (4 pcs. Modules) | 8 pcs. (4 pcs. Modules) | 8 pcs. (4 pcs. Modules) |
CPU Clock Base | 4.7 GHz | 4.4 Ghz | 4.0 GHz |
CPU Turbo Core | 5.0 GHz | 4.7 GHz | 4.2 GHz |
L2 cache | 4 x 2 MB | 4 x 2 MB | 4 x 2 MB |
L3 cache | 8 MB | 8 MB | 8 MB |
Max. DDR3 | 1866 MHz | 1866 MHz | 1866 MHz |
TDP | 220 W | 220 W | 125 W |
Base | AM3 + | AM3 + | AM3 + |