AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Xeon E5-1620

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620

Price

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$ 282.02

$ 153.08

$ 128.94 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points

6% slightly better overall score

2735 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

4274 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

2280 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

2192 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

40.70 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2284 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

592 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points

2244 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

611 points

14% 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

30% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

31% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W

130 W

69% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

552nd of 1,089

582nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-9590 vs Xeon E5-1620 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-9590 is faster than the Xeon E5-1620. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1620 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. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9590 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-1620. The Xeon E5-1620 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.