AMD A10-6800K vs AMD Phenom II X4 960T

A10-6800K vs Phenom II X4 960T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A10-6800K performs better than the Phenom II X4 960T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 960T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 960T has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A10-6800K has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A10-6800K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X4 960T. The info from our database shows that the A10-6800K has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 960T

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 A10-6800K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.