Athlon X4 860K vs Athlon X4 950 comparison
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon X4 950 performs better than the Athlon X4 860K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 860K in all gaming tests too.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon X4 950 has significantly more cores than the Athlon X4 860K. Indeed, the Athlon X4 950 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon X4 860K. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 860K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon X4 950. The Athlon X4 950 outputs less heat than Athlon X4 860K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Athlon X4 860K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon X4 950
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.
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