AMD first to reach 5GHz with FX-9590 processor

[Scoobes]

CGI-Quality said:

Scoobes said:
AMD, still chasing the clock speed dream. I somehow doubt this will come close to the single threaded performance of a similarly priced Intel chip. There is literally no point in AMD competing in the high end of CPUs, Intel just have way too many advantages.

APUs however...

I'm going to stack it next to my chip (i7 3970X) and see where it goes. Issues I see here are temperature, in addition to lower performance. Even the console manufacturers realized it's not all about the clock speed anymore.

I have a sneaking supiscion your i7 will destroy this chip. The only advantage the AMD chips ever had was in highly threaded applications, and I don't think the advantage was particularly noticeable.

In games the i7 will win out.

Also, you may want some water cooling