AMD FX-Series FX 9590 8-Core 4.7GHz Processor - Black Edition (FD9590FHHKWOF)

Take your PC’s megatasking abilities to extreme levels with the first native 8-core desktop processor built with dynamic, tuneable performance to handle multiple intensive apps without breaking a sweat.AMD FX Processors unlock maximum, unrestrained processing performance for extreme responsiveness you can see and feel.

Maximum Performance
The industry's only 8-core desktop processor
Overclock with easy to use AMD Overdrive™ and AMD Catalyst Control Center™ software suites1
Supreme power available from virtually every core configuration - also available in 6- and
4-core variants
Aggressive performance for mega-tasking and intensive applications like video editing and
3D modeling

Innovative Architecture
The industry's first and only native 8-core desktop processor for unmatched multitasking and pure core performance with all new "Bulldozer" architecture
New 32 nanometer die shrink designed to reduce leakage for improved efficiency, increased clock rate headroom and better thermals
Can deliver more cores and more performance without raising the power requirements

Industry Leading Price Per Performance
Unlocked processors allow the maximum tunable performance
AMD Turbo CORE Technology dynamically adjusts performance to give you the best experience, no matter what you are doing
Get superior performance at a competitive price with unlocked technology

Secured with tamper-resistant packaging and bar-coded for tracking, each AMD PIB comes with:
A high-performance AMD processor
AMD-qualified heat sink & fan with thermal interface
Installation manual
AMD processor case sticker
Certificate of authenticity

New Instruction Capabilities
AVX - Advanced Vector Extensions increase parallelism for scientific & 3D apps using heavy floating point calculations
FMA4 & XOP – Floating-Point Vector Multiply-Accumulate & eXtended Operations improves throughput & performance on many integer & floating point vector functions
AES - Advanced Encryption Standard increases performance on encryption apps like TrueCrypt® & PCMark®

AMD FX Processors
We call it the new AMD FX 8-Core Processor Black Edition and it's unlocked for your overclocking pleasure.1 Experience unmatched multitasking and pure core performance with the industry's first 32nm 8-core desktop processor. Get the speed you crave with AMD Turbo CORE Technology to push your core frequencies to the limit when you need it most. Go beyond the limits of maximum speed with easy-to-use AMD OverDrive™ and AMD Catalyst Control Center™ software suites. But the best part of all? You'll get all this impressive performance at an unbelievable price. You'll be asking yourself "what competition?" in no time.

AMD FX 8-Core Processors
The industry's first and only native 8-core desktop processor for unmatched multitasking and pure core performance with all-new "Bulldozer" architecture.
New 32 nanometer die shrink designed to reduce leakage for improved efficiency, increased clock rate headroom and better thermals.

AMD Turbo CORE Technology
The AMD FX Processors come equipped with AMD Turbo CORE Technology. AMD Turbo CORE Technology is a performance boosting technology that helps increase performance on the applications that need it the most.

AMD Balanced Smart Cache
Shared L3 cache ( up to 8MB)
Improved scheduling and pre-fetch capabilities
64-ways (16-ways/sub-cache)
Increased data queue sizes
Coherency for 8-cores

AMD Wide Floating Point Accelerator
Shared FP Scheduler
Dual 128-bit Floating point engines – capable of teaming together for 256-bit AVX instructions or operating separately with each core.

HyperTransport™ Technology
One 16-bit link at up to 5600MT/s
Up to 8.0GB/s HyperTransport™ I/O bandwidth; Up to 16GB/s in HyperTransport Generation 3.0 mode
Up to 37GB/s total delivered processor-to-system bandwidth (HyperTransport bus + memory bus)
Benefit: Quick access times to system I/O for better performance.

Integrated DRAM Controller with AMD Memory Optimizer Technology
A high-bandwidth, low-latency integrated memory controller
Supports up to DDR3-18662
Supports new low voltage memories of 1.35V and 1.2V
Up to 29.9GB/s memory bandwidth for DDR3
New Pre-Fetcher improvements
Direct communications to each core in Dual-Core module (APIC registers in each core)

AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™) Technology with IOMMU
Silicon feature-set enhancements designed to improve the performance, reliability, and security of existing and future virtualization environments by allowing virtualized applications with direct and rapid access to their allocated memory.
IOMMU is an extension to AMD64 architecture to support address translation and access protection on DMA transfers
Security for User Level application and Virtual Machine guest operating system
Address translation and access control
Device isolation
Device assignment in virtualized systems
Security & trusted boot support
Unified interrupt management

AMD PowerNow!™ Technology (Cool'n'Quiet™ Technology)
Enhanced power management features which automatically and instantaneously adjusts performance states and features based on processor performance requirements
C6 power state for cache flush, and voltage down individual core
CC6 power state allows all cores in C6 to power even lower
For quieter operation and reduced power requirements
Separate memory controller power control
IO-based c-state interface
Works automatically without the need for drivers or BIOS enablement.
Power can be switched on or off within a single clock cycle, saving energy with no impact to performance.

Technical Details

Model

Brand : AMD
Model : FD9590FHHKWOF
Series : FX-Series

Specifications

Frequency : 4700
Socket Type : AM3+
Power Wattage : 220
L3 Cache : 8MB
Total L2 Cache : 8MB
CMOS Technology : 32nm SOI
AMD64 Technology : Yes
Simultaneous 32- & 64-bit computing : Yes

HyperTransport™ Technology 
HyperTransport™ Technology up to 4000MT/s full duplex, or up to 16.0GB/s I/O Bandwidth

Integrated DDR3 Memory Controller : Yes
Memory Controller Width : 128-bit
Type of Memory Supported : Up to DDR3 18662
Memory Bandwidth : Up to 21 GB/s dual channel memory bandwidth
Total Processor-to-system Bandwidth (HyperTransport plus memory bandwidth) : Up to 37 GB/s