Intel Core i7-8550U vs AMD FX-9590

Compare Intel 8th 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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$ 969.00

$ 282.02

$ 686.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2085 points

2901 points

39% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3523 points

4225 points

19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1671 points

2475 points

48% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1597 points

2378 points

48% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.52 points

49.04 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2622 points

3167 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

878 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

645 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

1.8 GHz

4.7 GHz

161% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

5 GHz

25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

1366% significantly lower TDP

220 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

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

706th of 1,089

552nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

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 i7-8550U vs FX-9590 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-9590 beats the Core i7-8550U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8550U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9590 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8550U. A Core i7-8550U 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 i7-8550U. 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 i7-8550U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.