Intel Core i3-4160 vs AMD Athlon X4 860K

Core i3-4160 vs Athlon X4 860K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon X4 860K is faster than the Core i3-4160. Despite this, the Core i3-4160 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 860K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-4160. A Core i3-4160 CPU outputs less heat than a Athlon X4 860K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-4160 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.