Intel Core i7-6600U vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

Core i7-6600U vs Athlon X4 760K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon X4 760K beats the Core i7-6600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6600U 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. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 760K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U.

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 i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.