AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Xeon E3-1281 v3

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1281 v3

Price

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$ 282.02

$ 264.23 significantly less expensive

$ 546.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points

3044 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

5018 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

0.61% slightly better multitasking score

2460 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

0.72% slightly better heavy workload score

2361 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

76.91 points

56% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points

3467 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

953 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points

4098 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

1291 points

141% 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

27% slightly higher clock speed

3.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W

82 W

168% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

552nd of 1,089

534th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-9590 vs Xeon E3-1281 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1281 v3 is faster than the FX-9590. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9590 in all gaming tests too.

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 E3-1281 v3. Also, the FX-9590 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1281 v3 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.

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.