AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Core i7-2600K

FX-9590 vs Core i7-2600K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-9590 beats the Core i7-2600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-2600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-9590 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2600K. The Core i7-2600K 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.