Intel Core i7-920 vs AMD FX-9590

Compare Intel Core 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

$ 99.95
$ 182.07 significantly less expensive
$ 282.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1474 points
2901 points
96% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2489 points
4225 points
69% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1179 points
2475 points
109% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1132 points
2378 points
110% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

31.28 points
49.04 points
56% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points
3167 points
112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

419 points
645 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1431 points
2147 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points
535 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

2.79 GHz
4.7 GHz
68% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.93 GHz
5 GHz
70% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
69% significantly lower TDP
220 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

814th of 1,089
552nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 November
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-920 vs FX-9590 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-9590 is faster than the Core i7-920. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-920 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-9590 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-920. A Core i7-920 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 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 i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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