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The name is FX-9590. It has 8 compute cores. AMD's internal designation for this generation is "Piledriver". They've chosen to name their high-end compute famil
by icegreentea 13y ago
The name is FX-9590. It has 8 compute cores. AMD's internal designation for this generation is "Piledriver". They've chosen to name their high-end compute family after construction equipment (their previous were named after racing tracks). 5 GHz Max Turbo is also not part of the name, it is a description of its performance. It's "baseline" performance is probably something like 4GHz or something (pulling out of my ass). The Max Turbo refers to that using their thermal management system, they can peak at least one of their cores to 5GHz for some period of time. The "Max" is in there because there are intermediate turbo speeds for varying thermal situations and CPU loads.
- moe 13y agoI really wish CPU vendors would simply name their products after relevant benchmarks. E.g. 'Intel PassMark 14490/135W'. Or 'AMD PassMark 9140/125W'. Sounds nearly as fancy, makes the same amount of sense to the layman, and saves the rest of us a bit of time.
- pavlov 13y agoAMD used to do something like this back in the K5 era. Instead of advertising megahertz, the processors were sold based on a "performance rating" which attempted to match them up to equivalent Pentium chips based on a set of benchmarks. So a K5 PR-200 was actually a 133MHz chip, but it could match or exceed a Pentium 200MHz in some well-selected benchmarks.
- iso8859-1 13y agoThere is no such thing as a _universally_ "relevant benchmark". They will never agree on a testing suite since performance varies too much. They have no reason to believe the test manufacturer is impartial.
- vacri 13y agoWhen you're done convincing them, can you convince the GPU makers as well? It's crazytown over there. At least the network switch makers have a sort of internal consistency, though you still have to learn individual vendors' styles.