Intel Core i7-4712MQ vs AMD Athlon X4 860K

Core i7-4712MQ vs Athlon X4 860K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon X4 860K is faster than the Core i7-4712MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4712MQ in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-4712MQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon X4 860K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 860K. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 860K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4712MQ. A Core i7-4712MQ 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon X4 860K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4712MQ

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 i7-4712MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.