Intel Core i7-6498DU vs AMD FX-870K

Core i7-6498DU vs FX-870K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-870K beats the Core i7-6498DU in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6498DU in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-870K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6498DU. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-870K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6498DU

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 Core i7-6498DU has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.