Intel Core i7-4770 vs AMD FX-9590

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 76.51
$ 205.51 significantly less expensive
$ 282.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2793 points
2901 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4464 points
5% slightly better gaming score
4225 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2300 points
2475 points
7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2209 points
2378 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

60.61 points
23% slightly higher Blender score
49.04 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3652 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3167 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1143 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
645 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3812 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2147 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1210 points
126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
535 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.40 GHz
4.7 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
5 GHz
28% slightly 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

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

571st of 1,089
552nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 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

No
-

Core i7-4770 vs FX-9590 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-9590 is faster than the Core i7-4770. Despite this, the Core i7-4770 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number 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 i7-4770. A Core i7-4770 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 i7-4770. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-4770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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