AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Core i7-2700K

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

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Price

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$ 282.02

$ 189.88

$ 92.14 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points

11% slightly better overall score

2597 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

10% slightly better gaming score

3839 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

2213 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

2133 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

44.33 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2222 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

627 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points

2293 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

672 points

25% 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

4.7 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

95 W

131% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

552nd of 1,089

608th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-9590 vs Core i7-2700K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-9590 performs better than the Core i7-2700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2700K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9590 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2700K. The Core i7-2700K 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.