AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Core i7 X 980

FX-9590 vs Core i7 X 980 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7 X 980 is faster than the FX-9590. Despite this, the FX-9590 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7 X 980 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the FX-9590 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-9590. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9590 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7 X 980. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7 X 980 has significantly more L2 cache than the FX-9590

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.