AMD FX-9000 - FX-8770 CPU's.

Martini1991 · 14 Jun 2013 at 14:54

I was being conservative with 15, you can see it upto 20%.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/837?vs=288

Clock difference is about 5%?

EDIT : I also didn't mean to come over as defensive, but Haswell is hard to put into a blanket "It's good/bad" as it's a pretty positive move for laptops.

humbug · 14 Jun 2013 at 18:46

Its cool ^^^^

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2274168/amd-announces-5ghz-fx9590-processor

AMD said that its FX-9000 series chips initially will be available to OEMs and system builders and did not say when the retail channel will see the chips. However the firm is expected to release Steamroller chips before the end of the year and many will find that the performance boost derived from architecture improvements will be more attractive.

Yes, indeed. get on with it....

8 Pack said:
We have one of these CPU in the office. Interesting!!! to say the least.

oh? are we going to see any results from it?

OLDPHART · 18 Jun 2013 at 08:40

AMD FX-9590 costs 920 USD = £586 ---> Rip OFF.

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/amd_fx_9590_costs_920_usd.html

~>Dg<~ · 18 Jun 2013 at 08:49

haha at price

Zeed · 18 Jun 2013 at 09:01

Almost 600f for that cpu ??? They crazy in their heads LOL

Doomedspeed · 18 Jun 2013 at 09:09

OLDPHART said:
AMD FX-9590 costs 920 USD = £586 ---> Rip OFF.

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/amd_fx_9590_costs_920_usd.html

A pildriver chip with a xeon esc price tag...

if the price is justified (the best CPU on the market) this could be amd's return to glory. Though if not this could be another nail in there 'iron maiden' style coffin..

I don't fully have confidence in there architechure.. (2 core modules) so not expecting much..

cheesyboy · 18 Jun 2013 at 09:29

That may be £586 at real exchange rates, but in retail that would translate to around £750!!!

At stock speeds, this bad boy should marginally outperform a stock Haswell i7 in most tasks so £300 would be fair. Add in rarity and, hopefully, some phenomenal potential overclocks (I'm thinking ~6Ghz with off-the-shelf water cooling), and a pricetag of £400 would be reasonable.

I would expect £600 in reality, though

And don't talk to me about efficiency - what are we? Hippies?

Martini1991 · 18 Jun 2013 at 09:42

I'm pretty sure I said it's going to be crazy priced....... I'm also pretty sure that this was the rumoured pricing when it was first rumoured about which was well before E3

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cheesyboy said:
That may be £586 at real exchange rates, but in retail that would translate to around £750!!!

At stock speeds, this bad boy should marginally outperform a stock Haswell i7 in most tasks so £300 would be fair. Add in rarity and, hopefully, some phenomenal potential overclocks (I'm thinking ~6Ghz with off-the-shelf water cooling), and a pricetag of £400 would be reasonable.

I would expect £600 in reality, though

And don't talk to me about efficiency - what are we? Hippies?

What about the 3930K which comes in at 430? It's an undeniable better buy than an equally/higher priced 8 core PD chip.

Doomedspeed · 18 Jun 2013 at 10:21

cheesyboy said:
That may be £586 at real exchange rates, but in retail that would translate to around £750!!!

At stock speeds, this bad boy should marginally outperform a stock Haswell i7 in most tasks so £300 would be fair. Add in rarity and, hopefully, some phenomenal potential overclocks (I'm thinking ~6Ghz with off-the-shelf water cooling), and a pricetag of £400 would be reasonable.

I would expect £600 in reality, though

And don't talk to me about efficiency - what are we? Hippies?

How do you know how it will perform?

Martini1991 · 18 Jun 2013 at 10:24

Doomedspeed said:
How do you know how it will perform?

Well we can guess can't we?
It's just a higher clocked FX83.

It'll be 700-800MHZ faster than the FX8350 depending on the application.
So it's gaining ~20% performance.

It probably won't clocking much higher than what it's at though, so an i7 4770K that you can clock is probably going to be a much better buy, but the 4770K will probably be much cheaper than this CPU.

OLDPHART · 18 Jun 2013 at 10:32

A x79 --> 4970K 0r 4930K will be better again when they are released and if Intel don't drop a clanger will be cheaper.

MANFACE · 18 Jun 2013 at 10:56

Looking forward to this.

Martini1991 · 18 Jun 2013 at 10:58

Doomedspeed · 18 Jun 2013 at 11:05

Martini1991 said:
Well we can guess can't we?
It's just a higher clocked FX83.

It'll be 700-800MHZ faster than the FX8350 depending on the application.
So it's gaining ~20% performance.

It probably won't clocking much higher than what it's at though, so an i7 4770K that you can clock is probably going to be a much better buy, but the 4770K will probably be much cheaper than this CPU.

That all make sense just the only thing niggling at me is the price tag...

If they knew its be competing with the 4770k why price it £250-£300 higher?

AMD normally go for value...

Martini1991 · 18 Jun 2013 at 11:12

It might not even be released in the normal retail channel.

cheesyboy · 18 Jun 2013 at 11:27

Martini1991 said:
What about the 3930K which comes in at 430? It's an undeniable better buy than an equally/higher priced 8 core PD chip.

Well, this CPU has that unquantifiable property of exclusivity.

The majority of Porsche drivers don't utilise the phenomenal performance of their cars, so why do they buy something which, by most day to day standards, is worse than a BMW? Because it's a damn Porsche - that's why.

This CPU is 5Ghz! at Stock! * and there's very limited numbers. Who wouldn't want one of those

* yeah, ok, with turbo

Doomedspeed · 18 Jun 2013 at 11:31

Martini1991 said:
It might not even be released in the normal retail channel.

That would make more sense, odd of them to release a price though...

mmj_uk · 18 Jun 2013 at 12:56

I suspect this is just an attempt by AMD to make PD look a little bit more respectable on the benchmark front, AMD usually do this with GPU's (ie. 7970 Ghz edition) as they know reviewers tend to only use reference/stock chips, so they release a new faster clocked model in limited quantity.

I doubt they are looking to sell many given the price tag as an overclocked 1155 i7 will probably still outperform it in most cases and a 3930K should run rings around it.

humbug · 18 Jun 2013 at 13:09

AMD are doing an Nvidia.

Very high price for this, and then later this year release a 5Ghz 8 core steamroller for £350, which might actually be worth that.

Doomedspeed · 18 Jun 2013 at 13:18

humbug said:
AMD are doing an Nvidia.

Very high price for this, and then later this year release a 5Ghz 8 core steamroller for £350, which might actually be worth that.

So it a little bit of 'Willy waving'?

"look at how good our 5Ghz 8 core chip performs, shame its £600"

Then 3 months later:

"We have a new 5Ghz 8 core chip for £350.. Nearly half peice, what a bargain...."