AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Xeon E5-2630

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2630

Price

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$ 282.02

$ 574.36 significantly less expensive

$ 856.38

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points

12% slightly better overall score

2586 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

17% slightly better gaming score

3592 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

2259 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

2183 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

38.04 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3117 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

510 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points

2380 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

448 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz

104% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

78% significantly higher turbo speed

2.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W

95 W

131% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

552nd of 1,089

610th 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 E5-2630 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-9590 performs better than the Xeon E5-2630. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2630 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2630 has significantly more cores than the FX-9590. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2630 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-9590. It also has more threads than the FX-9590. Our comparison shows that the FX-9590 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630. The Xeon E5-2630 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.