AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Core i7-3940XM

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 i7-3940XM

Price

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$ 282.02

$ 62.02 slightly less expensive

$ 344.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points

18% slightly better overall score

2439 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

7% slightly better gaming score

3946 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

24% slightly better multitasking score

1992 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

1913 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

0.33% slightly higher Blender score

48.88 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2994 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

793 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2039 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

644 points

20% 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

46% significantly higher clock speed

3.20 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

55 W

300% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

3100% significantly more L2 cache

0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

552nd of 1,089

638th 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 August

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 i7-3940XM specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-9590 performs better than the Core i7-3940XM. Despite this, the Core i7-3940XM 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. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9590 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3940XM. The Core i7-3940XM 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-9590 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-3940XM. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.