AMD FX-8350 vs AMD FX-9590

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 164.99

$ 117.03 significantly less expensive

$ 282.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

2901 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

4225 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

2475 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

2378 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

49.04 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

3167 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

645 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

2147 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

535 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

4.7 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

75% significantly lower TDP

220 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

552nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

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-8350 vs FX-9590 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-9590 performs better than the FX-8350. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9590 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-8350. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and 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 FX-8350 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.