AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2

FX-9590 vs Xeon E3-1270 V2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-9590 beats the Xeon E3-1270 V2 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-9590 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1270 V2. The info from our database shows that the FX-9590 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1270 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.