AMD Athlon X4 760K vs AMD Athlon X4 860K

Athlon X4 760K vs Athlon X4 860K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon X4 860K performs better than the Athlon X4 760K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 760K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon X4 860K. In terms of cache, the Athlon X4 760K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon X4 860K

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