AMD Athlon X4 860K vs AMD Phenom II X4 960T

Athlon X4 860K vs Phenom II X4 960T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 960T 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 Phenom II X4 960T has significantly more cores than the Athlon X4 860K. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 960T 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 Phenom II X4 960T. The info from our database shows that the Athlon X4 860K has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 960T

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.