AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4

Price

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$ 282.02

$ 211.95

$ 70.07 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points

6066 points

109% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

5717 points

35% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

6174 points

149% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

6198 points

160% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

195.63 points

298% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points

6195 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

988 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points

6901 points

221% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

1027 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

250% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

250% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz

95% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

51% significantly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W

120 W

83% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

552nd of 1,089

247th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-9590 vs Xeon E5-2680 v4 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 is faster than the FX-9590. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9590 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the FX-9590 has 4 cores. 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 E5-2680 v4. Also, the FX-9590 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2680 v4 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the FX-9590 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.