Intel Core i7-4770K 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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AMD FX-9590

Price

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$ 153.83

$ 128.19 significantly less expensive

$ 282.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2925 points

0.83% slightly better overall score

2901 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4768 points

12% slightly better gaming score

4225 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2381 points

2475 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2286 points

2378 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

66.02 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

49.04 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3979 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3167 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1227 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

645 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4080 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2147 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1280 points

139% 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

3.50 GHz

4.7 GHz

34% 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

548th 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

Core i7-4770K vs FX-9590 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-9590 performs better than the Core i7-4770K. Despite this, the Core i7-4770K 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. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9590 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4770K. A Core i7-4770K 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 info from our database shows that the FX-9590 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4770K. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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. Indeed, the Core i7-4770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.