AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Xeon E5-2643

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 E5-2643

Price

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$ 282.02

$ 1874.98 significantly less expensive

$ 2157.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points

2971 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

2% slightly better gaming score

4108 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

2620 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

2542 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

40.83 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2888 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

646 points

0.16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2094 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

566 points

5% 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

42% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

42% much higher turbo speed

3.5 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

542nd 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 E5-2643 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2643 performs better than the FX-9590. Despite this, the FX-9590 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 E5-2643. Also, the FX-9590 has a much higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2643 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-9590 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.