AMD FX-9590 vs Intel Xeon W3680

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

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Intel Xeon W3680

Price

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$ 282.02

$ 179.73

$ 102.29 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2901 points

2952 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4225 points

4% slightly better gaming score

4047 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2475 points

2596 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2378 points

2512 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.04 points

68.56 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3167 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2622 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

564 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2147 points

2543 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

550 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

41% slightly higher clock speed

3.33 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

38% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W

130 W

69% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

552nd of 1,089

544th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 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 W3680 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W3680 beats the FX-9590 in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-9590 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon W3680 has significantly more cores with 6 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon W3680. The Xeon W3680 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 info from our database shows that the Xeon W3680 has more L2 cache than the FX-9590

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.