AMD Athlon X4 860K vs Intel Xeon E5-450

Athlon X4 860K vs Xeon E5-450 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon X4 860K beats the Xeon E5-450 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-450 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-450 has significantly more cores than the Athlon X4 860K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-450 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 Xeon E5-450. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E5-450 has more L2 cache than the Athlon X4 860K

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.