Intel Core i7-860 vs AMD Athlon 3000G

Core i7-860 vs Athlon 3000G benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-860 beats the Athlon 3000G in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon 3000G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-860 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon 3000G has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon 3000G. Our comparison shows that the Athlon 3000G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-860. The Athlon 3000G outputs less heat than Core i7-860 thanks to a 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. Indeed, the Core i7-860 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.