Back in the day I was taught (and somewhat still stick to the idea) that AMD uses their high clock speeds to attract customers. Upon hearing this and doing further research, I concocted a motto about AMD cpus, that they "attract customers who like big numbers with not much to back them up." I'm curious to see if AMDs higher priced new CPUs will stack against Intels at similar price points. So here's the [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] which costs ~$440, and here's what Intel has to say *closest to that price point on the high end side, the [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] and [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] , both costing about $540.

After minimal research I found that yet again AMDs reach for the stars was rejected by the preexisting i7s, as demonstrated by [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] . So there, AMD can't stack up to the i7 extremes, but what about something more mundane like a 4770k or 3770k? Well you can figure that for yourself but that mostly depends on the GPU you will be using in conjunction with your CPU. Derppppp from TomsHardware said this in response to someone asking "i7 4770k or 9590?"

Derppppp from TomsHardware wrote i7 4770k. TDP is way too high on the 9590 so you'd have to buy a cooling kit, a bigger PSU, which will make it a lot more expensive than it has too.

No kidding, AMD advertises a 220w TDP which I personally don't believe is how much wattage it will typically use, but still that's too damn high for a CPU especially when you consider that Intel's highest end processor only has a TDP of 150w...

I also found a guy on the TomsHardware forums whom I might be related to, he says the following:

brianberger7 from TomsHardware wrote AMD put the 8 cores and high clock speeds on because that's what the average Joe will look at. The quantity of FX doesn't outweigh the quality of The i7 chips.

At least I'm not the only one thinking that AMD uses promisingly high clock speeds and core counts to attract the average uneducated user in their marketing. Hey, I thought AMD was the sh*t because I saw their empty promises of "8 cores!" and "4.0GHz stock!" and other misleading information, then I came to TTG..

Feel free to share thoughts or anything you have to share on the subject. Only reason I didn't compare the 9590 to other AMD CPUs is because in all reality nobody should be buying a 9590 or really any of the 9000 series CPUs without considering the better Intel i5 options first.