AMD A10-7890K vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

A10-7890K vs Athlon II X4 651 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 651 beats the A10-7890K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7890K 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 A10-7890K. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 651 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A10-7890K. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A10-7890K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X4 651. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the A10-7890K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.