AMD FX-9590 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Price

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$ 282.02

$ 259.99

$ 22.03 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points

27% slightly better overall score

2277 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

14% slightly better gaming score

3688 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

34% slightly better multitasking score

1839 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

34% slightly better heavy workload score

1764 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

32.04 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz

44% significantly higher clock speed

3.26 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

552nd of 1,089

668th of 1,089

Family

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FX 8-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-9590 vs Phenom II X6 1100T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-9590 is faster than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1100T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-9590 has 4 cores. Despite this, the FX-9590 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Our comparison shows that the FX-9590 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1100T. The info from our database shows that the FX-9590 has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X6 1100T. The FX-9590 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.