AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660

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

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Intel Xeon E5-2660

Price

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$ 282.02

$ 149.95

$ 132.07 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points

3233 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

10% slightly better gaming score

3840 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

3029 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

2968 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

60.42 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points

4080 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

538 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points

2763 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

457 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz

113% significantly higher clock speed

2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

66% significantly higher turbo speed

3 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

507th 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 E5-2660 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2660 performs better than the FX-9590. Despite this, the FX-9590 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2660 has significantly more cores than the FX-9590. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-9590. It also has more threads than the FX-9590. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9590 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2660. The Xeon E5-2660 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.