AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5

Price

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$ 282.02

$ 148.98

$ 133.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points

3020 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

4906 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

0.53% slightly better multitasking score

2462 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

0.76% slightly better heavy workload score

2360 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

67.47 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points

4037 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

1268 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points

4194 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

1312 points

145% 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

34% slightly higher clock speed

3.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

28% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W

80 W

175% significantly lower TDP

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

536th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E3 v5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-9590 vs Xeon E3-1245 v5 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1245 v5 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. Our comparison shows that the FX-9590 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1245 v5. Also, the FX-9590 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1245 v5 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-9590 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1245 v5. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.