The first benchmarks with AMD's upcoming 5 GHz processor FX-9590 "Centurion" processor have appeared online. The 32nm FX-9590 CPU features 8 cores and since it is based on the same architecture also met in the Piledriver and Bulldozer chips, operating at 5GHz results to extreme voltage requirements and a huge power draw.

The CPU's base clock is 4.7 GHz, which peaks at 5 GHz through the Turbo core 3.0 technology.

According to screenshots posted online at the VRZone's forums, the chip runs idle on 1.4GHz at 0.875V but when it turbo's towards 5 GHz it requires a 1.513V (!), which means that only a few high-end AM3+ motherboards will be able to support these power requirements.

The processor was tested on an ASRock 990FX Extreme9 motherboard.

Below you see a summary of the results that have been posted online:

Benchmark	Result	Screenshot
Cinebench 11.5	8.61 points
x264 FHD	28.9
3DMark11	Physics score: 8529 Combined score: 7890
3DMark 2013	Firestrike score: 6037
3DMark Vantage	CPU score: 27127
AIDA64	Memory Read: 26751 MB/s Write: 17515 MB/s Copy: 22754 MB/s Latency: 58.3 ns
Fritz Chess benchmark	Kilo nodes/s: 15678