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

A10-6800K vs Phenom II X4 960T benchmarks

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