Intel Core i5-4460 vs AMD FX-9590

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 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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$ 64.04

$ 217.98 significantly less expensive

$ 282.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2038 points

2901 points

42% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3756 points

4225 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1556 points

2475 points

59% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1494 points

2378 points

59% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.05 points

49.04 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2935 points

3167 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1032 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

645 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2954 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2147 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1068 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

535 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.20 GHz

4.7 GHz

46% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

5 GHz

47% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W

161% significantly lower TDP

220 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

709th of 1,089

552nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-4460 vs FX-9590 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-9590 is faster than the Core i5-4460. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4460 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-9590 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9590 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4460. A Core i5-4460 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-9590 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-4460. The FX-9590 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Core i5-4460 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.