AMD FX-9590 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 282.02
$ 104.12 significantly less expensive
$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points
10011 points
245% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points
11884 points
181% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points
9349 points
277% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points
9142 points
284% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points
263.24 points
436% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points
15051 points
601% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points
2723 points
408% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed
4.20 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
Identical
5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W
120 W
83% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
96 MiB
1100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

552nd of 1,089
88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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FX-9590 vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D beats the FX-9590 in overall performance. 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 Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more cores than the FX-9590. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-9590. It also has more threads than the FX-9590. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-9590 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

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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