AMD FX-8370 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

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$ 288.02

$ 282.02

$ 6.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2556 points

2901 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

4225 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

2475 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

2378 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

49.04 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2035 points

3167 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

491 points

645 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

2147 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

535 points

8% 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

4.3 GHz

5 GHz

16% 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

614th of 1,089

552nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8370 vs FX-9590 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-9590 is faster than the FX-8370. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8370 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8370. A FX-8370 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 data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-8370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.