AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

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

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Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Price

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$ 282.02

$ 150.00

$ 132.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points

13% slightly better overall score

2562 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

3% slightly better gaming score

4064 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

2114 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

2029 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

39.73 points

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

38% slightly higher clock speed

3.40 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

552nd of 1,089

613th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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 Xeon E3-1240 V2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-9590 is faster than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-9590 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1240 V2. In terms of cache, the FX-9590 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1240 V2. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.