AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points

4342 points

49% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

7190 points

70% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

3534 points

42% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

3381 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

85.75 points

74% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points

7114 points

231% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

2111 points

294% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz

235% significantly higher clock speed

1.4 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

23% slightly more L2 cache

6.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

552nd of 1,089

407th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-9590 vs Core 5 120U comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-9590 beats the Core 5 120U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 5 120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the FX-9590 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-9590. Our comparison shows that the FX-9590 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U. In terms of cache, the FX-9590 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core 5 120U. Despite this, the Core 5 120U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-9590.

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-9590 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.