Compare results for the FX 6300 and the FX 9590. Imagine if AMD instead released a 12 Core Variant that overclocks only to 4.1 Ghz, this would be equivalent to the FX 9590 on all cores but with much less IPC. Its no wonder AMD scrapped their 10 Core FX chips for higher clocked 8 Cores.
Steamroller FX will trounce the FX 9590 at lower clocks and TDP.
Check out the HUGE gains in power consumption for the FX 9590 at 5 GHZ ON AIR! JUST ABOVE A STOCK FX 8150 in power consumption! AMD FX 8150 at 4.8 uses 586 W, the FX 9590 at 5 Ghz uses 317W Just wait for steamroller!
AMD FX9590 Test System Processor: AMD FX9590 8 Core processor @ 5ghz Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 Cooler: Corsair H100i (performance mode) / BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 2 Graphics: Sapphire HD7970 6GB Toxic (Synthetic section – Catalyst 13.6 beta) and ASUS GTX780 Direct CUII OC (Games testing – Forceware 320.49) Memory: 16GB Corsair Vengeance Pro Series @ 2,133mhz (10-11-11-28) Power Supply: Corsair HX850 Optical Drive: Asus BluRay Drive. Chassis: Lian Li X2000 Boot Drive: Patriot 240GB Pyro SE Storage Drive: Patriot 240GB Wildfire. Monitor: Apple 30 inch Cinema HD Gaming compare system: Processor: Core i7 3960 X Extreme Edition @ 4.4ghz Graphics Card: ASUS GTX780 Direct CU II OC (Forceware 320.49) Cooler: Antec 920 H20 Memory: 16GB G.Skill 2,400mhz @ 10-11-10-30 Motherboard: Asus Rampage IV Extreme Power Supply: Enermax Platimax 1250W Optical Drive: Asus BluRay Drive Chassis: Lian Li PC-A77FR Aluminium Red Full Tower Case Boot Drive: Patriot WildFire 120GB Secondary Drive: 1TB Samsung Monitors: Dell U3011
AMD has better power consumption than the 3960x OC and ties in REALWORLD gaming performance!
Remember the 9590 is basically an FX 8350 OC! With multi-threaded games coming out, AMD will be the best bang for you buck!
"The biggest architectural change Kaveri APU features is the use of the latest 28nm Steamroller architecture that is a true multi-threaded architecture focusing on enhancing the IPC (Instruction-Per-Cycle) by up to 25%." Wccftech
Steamroller 20-25% IPC increase further supported as the leaks come out for Kaveri. Believe what you want, all I can say is you will be pleasantly surprised!