AMD FX-8370 vs Intel Core i5-4590S

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-4590S

Price

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$ 288.02

$ 198.95

$ 89.07 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2556 points

18% slightly better overall score

2162 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

4006 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

32% slightly better multitasking score

1647 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

32% slightly better heavy workload score

1580 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

45.67 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2035 points

2794 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

491 points

1049 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

2984 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

1094 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

614th of 1,089

692nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8370 vs Core i5-4590S comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-8370 beats the Core i5-4590S in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4590S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the FX-8370 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8370 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4590S. Also, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4590S outputs less heat than FX-8370 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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-8370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.