AMD Athlon X4 760K vs Intel Core i7 Q 740

Athlon X4 760K vs Core i7 Q 740 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon X4 760K beats the Core i7 Q 740 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 Q 740 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7 Q 740 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon X4 760K that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 760K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7 Q 740. In terms of cache, the Athlon X4 760K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7 Q 740

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.