Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs AMD FX-9590

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 65.00
$ 217.02 significantly less expensive
$ 282.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2849 points
2901 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3820 points
4225 points
10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2537 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
2475 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2462 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
2378 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.31 points
49.04 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3360 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3167 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points
645 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2265 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2147 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

450 points
535 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.50 GHz
4.7 GHz
87% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz
5 GHz
66% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
131% significantly lower TDP
220 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
8 MiB
433% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

15 MiB
87% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

560th of 1,089
552nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family
FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2640 vs FX-9590 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-9590 beats the Xeon E5-2640 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the FX-9590 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-9590. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9590 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2640. A Xeon E5-2640 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 Xeon E5-2640. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-9590.

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 Xeon E5-2640 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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