AMD first to reach 5GHz with FX-9590 processor

[ethomaz]

Snesboy said:

ethomaz said:
It is a share how today a AMD CPU running at 5Ghz can't hold a Intel CPU at 3Ghz in single clock performance... but when I remember around 2004 lol how the things changed.

Intel couldn't even touch AMD much less outperform them until 2006. And they didn't start outperforming AMD CPU's until 2008 with Intel Core 2.

Core 2 was 2006