AMD Athlon X4 760K vs AMD FX-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
1430 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2628 points
2728 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1061 points
1078 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1018 points
1035 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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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
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.6 GHz

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
830th of 1,089

Athlon X4 760K vs FX-870K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-870K 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 760K has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-870K. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has significantly more L2 cache than the FX-870K

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.

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