AMD Athlon X4 760K vs Intel Core i7-6498DU

Athlon X4 760K vs Core i7-6498DU benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6498DU 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. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 760K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6498DU. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6498DU

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.