AMD Athlon X4 760K vs Intel Celeron G550

Athlon X4 760K vs Celeron G550 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon X4 760K is faster than the Celeron G550. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron G550 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Athlon X4 760K has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 760K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Celeron G550. The info from our database shows that the Athlon X4 760K has more L2 cache than the Celeron G550

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.