Intel Core i5-8365U vs AMD FX-9590

Compare Intel 8th 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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$ 1278.00

$ 282.02

$ 995.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1927 points

2901 points

50% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3320 points

4225 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1537 points

2475 points

61% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1474 points

2378 points

61% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.28 points

49.04 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2419 points

3167 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

638 points

645 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.6 GHz

4.7 GHz

193% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

5 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

1366% significantly lower TDP

220 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

731st of 1,089

552nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8365U vs FX-9590 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-9590 performs better than the Core i5-8365U. Despite this, the Core i5-8365U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8365U. A Core i5-8365U 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 i5-8365U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.