AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Core i7-870

A8-5600K vs Core i7-870 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-870 is faster than the A8-5600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-5600K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-870 has significantly more cores than the A8-5600K. Indeed, the Core i7-870 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-5600K. It also has more threads than the A8-5600K. The Core i7-870 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.