Intel Core i3-4160 vs AMD FX-870K

Core i3-4160 vs FX-870K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4160 beats the FX-870K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-870K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Both the Core i3-4160 and FX-870K have the same clock speed.

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.