AMD Athlon X4 860K vs Intel Xeon E5-450

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

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-450 beats the Athlon X4 860K in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon X4 860K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 Xeon E5-450 outputs less heat than Athlon X4 860K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. 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.