AMD FX-9590 Review; Piledriver at 5GHz

System Benchmarks: Single Thread Performance

Even though most modern applications have the capability to utilize more than one CPU thread, single threaded performance is still a cornerstone of modern CPU IPC improvements. In this section, we take a number of synthetic applications and run them in single thread mode.


RESULTS: When it comes to single thread performance, AMD’s current architectures are simply brutalized by Intel’s offerings. While fewer applications are being released with support for only one to two cores, very few can fully utilize the eight core supplied by AMD’s higher end CPUs. Luckily, the addition of Turbo Core can somewhat mitigate these shortfalls by dynamically increasing frequencies when the full core allocation isn’t required but even with this in place, the FX-9590 still finds itself trailing.