AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Core i7-4790K

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-4790K

Price

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$ 282.02

$ 1.10 slightly less expensive

$ 283.12

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points

3124 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

5019 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

2564 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

2462 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

73.53 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points

4415 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

1357 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points

4402 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

1403 points

162% significantly 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

17% slightly higher clock speed

4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W

88 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

552nd of 1,089

520th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i7

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 i7-4790K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4790K performs better than the FX-9590. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9590 in all gaming tests too.

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 i7-4790K. The Core i7-4790K 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.