AMD Athlon X4 760K vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Athlon X4 760K vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon X4 760K 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2. In terms of cache, the Athlon X4 760K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2

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.