AMD Athlon X4 860K vs AMD Athlon X4 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

1469 points

4% slightly better overall score

1400 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2762 points

2% slightly better gaming score

2698 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1113 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1049 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1068 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

1006 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.94 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

18.63 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points

1209 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

455 points

468 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

3.89 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

815th of 1,089

839th of 1,089

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Athlon X4 860K vs Athlon X4 870K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon X4 860K performs better than the Athlon X4 870K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 870K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon X4 860K. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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 860K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.