AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Core i5-4690

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 i5-4690

Price

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$ 282.02

$ 52.00

$ 230.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points

28% slightly better overall score

2266 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

2% slightly better gaming score

4112 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

41% slightly better multitasking score

1744 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

1673 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

47.68 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points

3261 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

1162 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points

3344 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

1212 points

126% 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

4.7 GHz

34% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

28% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W

84 W

161% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

552nd of 1,089

670th 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 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-9590 vs Core i5-4690 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-9590 beats the Core i5-4690 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4690 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the FX-9590 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-9590 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4690. The Core i5-4690 outputs less heat than FX-9590 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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