AMD Athlon X4 760K vs AMD FX-9830P

Athlon X4 760K vs FX-9830P benchmarks

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