AMD A10-7850K vs Intel Xeon E5-1603

A10-7850K vs Xeon E5-1603 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1603 is faster 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 Xeon E5-1603 has significantly more cores than the A10-7850K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1603 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A10-7850K. But they both have the same number of threads. A A10-7850K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.