AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs AMD FX-9590

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 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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$ 287.24

$ 282.02

$ 5.22 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points

285% significantly better overall score

2901 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points

134% significantly better gaming score

4225 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points

370% significantly better multitasking score

2475 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points

397% significantly better heavy workload score

2378 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points

729% significantly higher Blender score

49.04 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12256 points

286% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3167 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2148 points

233% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

645 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points

460% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2147 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points

312% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

535 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

4.7 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

109% significantly lower TDP

220 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB

166% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

700% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

66th of 1,089

552nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 5950X vs FX-9590 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5950X 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 9 5950X has significantly more cores than the FX-9590. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-9590. 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 9 5950X. A Ryzen 9 5950X 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 5950X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 9 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.