AMD FX-9590 8-Core CPU Review Last Look Before Ryzen

Memory Bandwidth Benchmarks

SiSoftware Sandra 2016 SP3 Memory Bandwidth: link

SiSoftware Sandra 2016 is a utility, which includes remote analysis, benchmarking and diagnostic features for PCs, servers, mobile devices and networks. This test has been popular for CPU and memory benchmarks for well over a decade and it is one of the easiest benchmarks out there to run.

AIDA64 5.80 Memory & Cache Benchmark: link

AIDA64 is an industry-leading system information tool, loved by PC enthusiasts around the world, which not only provides extremely detailed information about both hardware and installed software, but also helps users diagnose issues and offers benchmarks to measure the performance of the computer.

Memory Bandwidth Results Summary: The AMD FX-9590 8-core processor on our particular 990FX motherboard could only run up to 2133 MHz, but it was close to the memory performance levels of the AMD FX-8370 running 2400 MHz thanks to the higher core clock speeds. The performance gap between AMD FX-Series processors and Intel desktop processors is still pretty wide.