AMD FX-9590 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 2000 Series 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

7% slightly better overall score

2711 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

4257 points

0.76% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

2242 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

2151 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

41.85 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2399 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

944 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points

2520 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

868 points

62% 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

134% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

38% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W

15 W

1366% 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

300% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

552nd of 1,089

587th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Ryzen PRO 2000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-9590 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U beats the FX-9590 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9590 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9590 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. Also, the FX-9590 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U 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 Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. The FX-9590 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.