Intel Core i3-12100 vs AMD FX-9590

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-9590

Price

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$ 128.59

$ 153.43 significantly less expensive

$ 282.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5115 points

76% significantly better overall score

2901 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8339 points

97% significantly better gaming score

4225 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4166 points

68% significantly better multitasking score

2475 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4001 points

68% significantly better heavy workload score

2378 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

111.80 points

127% significantly higher Blender score

49.04 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6822 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3167 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2105 points

226% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

645 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6766 points

215% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2147 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2147 points

301% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

535 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

4.7 GHz

42% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

5 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

60 W

266% significantly lower TDP

220 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

320 KiB

384 KiB

20% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

337th of 1,089

552nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i3

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Core i3-12100 vs FX-9590 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-12100 performs better than the FX-9590. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9590 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-9590 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-12100. A Core i3-12100 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-9590 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-12100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.