AMD Announces 5GHz, 4.7GHz ‘Piledriver’ Processors

AMD has unveiled what it calls the world’s first commercially available 5GHz CPU processor at the E3 gaming show. The FX-9590, an eight-core chip using the ‘Piledriver’ architecture that reaches 5GHz in turbo mode, is accompanied by the FX-9370, which also has eight cores and the same architecture, but is clocked at the slightly slower […]