AMD Unleashes First-Ever 5 GHz Processor

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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.

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Great

Good job AMD. Old news.

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

rajnusker said:
Good job AMD. Old news.

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

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

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

its an overclocked 8000 series, using same piledriver architecture.

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

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.