AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs AMD FX-9590

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 198.00
$ 84.02 significantly less expensive
$ 282.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6345 points
118% significantly better overall score
2901 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7643 points
80% significantly better gaming score
4225 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5911 points
138% significantly better multitasking score
2475 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5785 points
143% significantly better heavy workload score
2378 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

180.28 points
267% significantly higher Blender score
49.04 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8116 points
156% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3167 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1623 points
151% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
645 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8090 points
276% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2147 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1674 points
212% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
535 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

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

4.4 GHz
5 GHz
13% 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

512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
8 MiB
100% 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

233rd of 1,089
552nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 3700X vs FX-9590 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 3700X is faster than the FX-9590. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9590 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 3700X has significantly more cores than the FX-9590. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700X has 8 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 3700X. A Ryzen 7 3700X 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-9590 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 3700X 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 7 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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