AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Core 7 150U

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Core (Series 1) 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
0.10% slightly better overall score
2898 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points
0.48% slightly better gaming score
4205 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points
2534 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points
2452 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points
84.75 points
72% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points
7276 points
238% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points
2112 points
294% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
10
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz
161% significantly higher clock speed
1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
5.4 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed

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
554th 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

-
No

FX-9590 vs Core 7 150U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-9590 beats the Core 7 150U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 7 150U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the FX-9590 that 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 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-9590 has slightly more L2 cache than the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-9590.

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

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