AMD Will Relaunch 5GHz FX-9590 Processor with Liquid Cooling

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/24/2014 08:59 AM | source: | 63 comment(s)

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 +

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