From $1,091 to $466.79 AMD Finally Cut The Price Of The FX-9590

From $1,091 to $466.79 AMD Finally Cut The Price Of The FX-9590 - Advanced Micro Devices or AMD finally cut the price of the FX-9590 series processors to be more competitive and increase sales. AMD seems to realize that the FX-9590 processor speed that carries up to 5GHz and sold at high prices is still not compete with the performance of upper-class Intel processor line, especially the Extreme series.

AMD FX-9590 8-core carries the standard speed of 4.7 GHz with speeds reaching 5GHz TurboCore with TDP (Thermal Design Power) 220W initially sold for U.S. $ 1,091, now whittled down to $ 466.79.

The price offered by AMD FX-9590 is equivalent to the price of an Intel Core i7-4770K quad-core that carries with a speed of 3.5 GHz, TurboBoost 3.9 GHz, 8MB cache, and a TDP of 84W which is sold at a price of $ 410.

AMD FX-9590 processor is AMD Vishera come from families that use AMD Piledriver architecture. Performance offered by AMD FX-9590 processor is reportedly only 17.5% faster than the AMD FX-8350 which is an upscale AMD processors in consumer class.

When the AMD FX-9590 is priced at $ 1091 more, he will be dealing directly with the Intel Extreme series, namely the Intel Core i7-3970X in which the performance, the AMD FX-9590 processor is still behind.

As reported from XbitLabs (22/08/2013), the second largest x86 processor manufacturer is akhirmnya choose to cut AMD FX-9590 price in half and now competes with Intel Core i7-4770K. AMD FX-9590 processor is indeed more logical compete with the Core i7-4770K compared to the Extreme series

From $1,091 to $466.79 AMD Finally Cut The Price Of The FX-9590