AMD Athlon X4 760K vs AMD Athlon X4 870K

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1399 points
1400 points
0.07% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2628 points
2698 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1061 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
1049 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1018 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
1006 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.35 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
18.63 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1117 points
1209 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points
468 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
3.89 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

24.26 MiB
506% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

840th of 1,089
839th of 1,089

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Athlon X4 760K vs Athlon X4 870K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon X4 870K beats the Athlon X4 760K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 760K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon X4 760K. The info from our database shows that the Athlon X4 760K has more L2 cache than the Athlon X4 870K

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.

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