AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i7-860

A8-5600K vs Core i7-860 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-5600K performs better than the Core i7-860. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-860 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-860 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A8-5600K that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A8-5600K. The Core i7-860 outputs less heat than A8-5600K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 A8-5600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.