AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD FX-9590

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-9590

Price

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$ 67.00

$ 215.02 significantly less expensive

$ 282.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points

71% significantly better overall score

2901 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points

59% significantly better gaming score

4225 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points

78% significantly better multitasking score

2475 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points

79% significantly better heavy workload score

2378 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points

172% significantly higher Blender score

49.04 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6809 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3167 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points

141% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

645 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points

221% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2147 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points

201% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

535 points

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

3.6 GHz

4.7 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

238% significantly lower TDP

220 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

8 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089

552nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600 vs FX-9590 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600 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 Ryzen 5 3600 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 Ryzen 5 3600. A Ryzen 5 3600 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-9590 CPU because of its 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 FX-9590 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-9590.

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 Ryzen 5 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.