AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Xeon E3-1245 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points

8% slightly better overall score

2669 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

4446 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

2147 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

2060 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

48.24 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2305 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

674 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points

2273 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

659 points

23% slightly 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

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

599th 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 E3-1245 V2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-9590 beats the Xeon E3-1245 V2 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1245 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1245 V2. In terms of cache, the FX-9590 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1245 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.