AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Core i7-8705G

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points

21% slightly better overall score

2382 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

15% slightly better gaming score

3668 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

24% slightly better multitasking score

1988 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

1908 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

61.13 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points

3878 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

1153 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points

3988 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

1284 points

139% 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

51% significantly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W

65 W

238% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

1 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

646th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-9590 vs Core i7-8705G specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-9590 beats the Core i7-8705G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8705G 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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8705G. The Core i7-8705G 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 info from our database shows that the FX-9590 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8705G. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.