AMD Athlon X4 760K vs AMD A9-9420e

Athlon X4 760K vs A9-9420e comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon X4 760K beats the A9-9420e in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A9-9420e in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Athlon X4 760K has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the A9-9420e. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has significantly more L2 cache than the A9-9420e

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 Athlon X4 760K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.