AMD FX9590 (5ghz) Review (w/ Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5)

Dirt Showdown is the latest title in the franchise from Codemasters, based around the famous Colin McRae racing game series, although it no longer uses his name, since he passed away in 2007.

We configured the game at the ULTRA preset with a 2560×1600 resolution and 4x MSAA.

We don't feel there is any point in testing games at 1024×768 with low image quality settings – gamers today want to play at 1080p or greater resolutions with high image quality. We therefore want to see if there any major differences between the AMD FX9590 system @ 5ghz and our standard Core i7 3960x gaming system which is overclocked to 4.4ghz. Both systems are using the high end ASUS GTX780 Direct CU II OC graphics card.

The FX9590 @ 5ghz outscores the i7 3960x @ 4.4ghz in this particular test, which is interesting.

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