AMD Athlon X4 860K vs Intel Core i7-4810MQ

Athlon X4 860K vs Core i7-4810MQ benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4810MQ beats the Athlon X4 860K in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon X4 860K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-4810MQ has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Athlon X4 860K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 860K. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 860K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4810MQ. The Core i7-4810MQ 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon X4 860K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4810MQ

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.