AMD A10-7850K vs AMD Athlon X4 870K

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 2 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1343 points

1400 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2540 points

2698 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1015 points

1049 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

973 points

1006 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.30 points

18.63 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1137 points

1209 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

449 points

468 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

3.89 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

860th of 1,089

839th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

A10-7850K vs Athlon X4 870K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon X4 870K beats the A10-7850K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7850K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A10-7850K. Also, the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A10-7850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.