AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Core i7-8850H

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 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
3693 points
27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points
5381 points
27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points
3183 points
28% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points
3075 points
29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points
84.41 points
72% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points
4703 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points
1291 points
100% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points
4710 points
119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points
1344 points
151% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz
80% significantly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
16% slightly higher turbo speed
4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W
45 W
388% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
433% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
12 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

552nd of 1,089
463rd 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 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

FX-9590 vs Core i7-8850H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8850H performs better than the FX-9590. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9590 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-8850H has significantly more cores than the FX-9590. Indeed, the Core i7-8850H has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-9590. It also has more threads than the FX-9590. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9590 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8850H. The Core i7-8850H 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. In terms of cache, the FX-9590 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8850H. Despite this, the Core i7-8850H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-9590.

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.

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