AMD A10-7850K vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

A10-7850K vs Athlon II X4 651 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X4 651 performs better than the A10-7850K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7850K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly more cores than the A10-7850K. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 651 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A10-7850K. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A10-7850K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 651. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache

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 A10-7850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.