AMD Athlon X4 760K vs AMD FX-9830P

Athlon X4 760K vs FX-9830P benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon X4 760K is faster than the FX-9830P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9830P in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-9830P has significantly more cores than the Athlon X4 760K. Indeed, the FX-9830P has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon X4 760K. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 760K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-9830P. In terms of cache, the Athlon X4 760K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the FX-9830P

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.