AMD FX-6300 vs AMD FX-9590

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 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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$ 50.00

$ 232.02 significantly less expensive

$ 282.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

2901 points

61% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

4225 points

40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

2475 points

71% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

2378 points

72% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

49.04 points

69% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

3167 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

645 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

2147 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

535 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

4.7 GHz

34% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

5 GHz

31% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

131% significantly lower TDP

220 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

288 KiB

384 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

552nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-6300 vs FX-9590 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-9590 performs better than the FX-6300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-9590 has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9590 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-6300. The info from our database shows that the FX-9590 has more L2 cache than the FX-6300. 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 FX-6300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.