AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2

FX-9590 vs Xeon E5-2697 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 beats the FX-9590 in overall performance. 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 E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores than the FX-9590. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has 12 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-9590. It also has more threads than the FX-9590. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-9590 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v2. The Xeon E5-2697 v2 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.