AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Core i7-3820

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

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Intel Core i7-3820

Price

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$ 282.02

$ 67.86 slightly less expensive

$ 349.88

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points

6% slightly better overall score

2718 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

1% slightly better gaming score

4152 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

2278 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

2189 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

38.29 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2358 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

613 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points

2306 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

624 points

16% 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

30% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

31% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W

130 W

69% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

552nd of 1,089

583rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

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 i7-3820 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-9590 is faster than the Core i7-3820. Despite this, the Core i7-3820 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount 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 i7-3820. The Core i7-3820 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.

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.