Intel Core i5-6300HQ vs AMD Athlon X4 870K

Core i5-6300HQ vs Athlon X4 870K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6300HQ beats the Athlon X4 870K in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon X4 870K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-6300HQ has significantly more cores than the Athlon X4 870K. Indeed, the Core i5-6300HQ 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 significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6300HQ. Also, the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6300HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Athlon X4 870K 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. For instance, the Core i5-6300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.