AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255H

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 16 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

4% slightly better overall score

2788 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

22% slightly better gaming score

3457 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

2584 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

2521 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

212.94 points

334% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points

13475 points

527% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

2524 points

371% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz

134% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

5.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

28 MiB

250% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

24 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

552nd of 1,089

572nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR5-8400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-9590 vs Core Ultra 7 255H comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-9590 beats the Core Ultra 7 255H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 7 255H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the FX-9590 has 4 cores. 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 Ultra 7 255H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 255H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the FX-9590. The Core Ultra 7 255H also has significantly more 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.