AMD Athlon X4 870K vs AMD PRO A8-8670E

Athlon X4 870K vs PRO A8-8670E comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon X4 870K beats the PRO A8-8670E in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the PRO A8-8670E in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the PRO A8-8670E has significantly more cores than the Athlon X4 870K. Indeed, the PRO A8-8670E has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon X4 870K. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher clock speed than the PRO A8-8670E. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon X4 870K has significantly more L2 cache than the PRO A8-8670E

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Athlon X4 870K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.