More Linux Benchmarks Of The AMD FX-8370E / FX-8370 / FX-9590
Either due to thermal issues, VRM overheating, or some other issue, the FX-8370 CPUs were actually faster than the FX-9590 with the HPC Challenge and the important HPL performance.
The CPUs certainly get hotter with HPC Challenge than in the gaming benchmarks.
The system power consumption with the FX-9590 peaked at 439 Watts, compared to 204~281 Watts with the FX-8370 CPUs.
The Linux kernel compilation results also indicate FX-9590 performance issues in this setup.
Find more of these three-way test results via this OpenBenchmarking.org result file or by running your own side-by-side performance comparison by installing the Phoronix Test Suite and executing phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1409031-LI-AMDAM3CPU16. Stay tuned for other benchmarks soon and investigating the FX-9590 performance issues.
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