Intel Core i7-860 vs AMD Athlon 3000G

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD Athlon Desktop 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 54.25
$ 15.74 slightly less expensive
$ 69.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1632 points
10% slightly better overall score
1477 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2607 points
2742 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1342 points
18% slightly better multitasking score
1135 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1289 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score
1095 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.74 points
31.38 points
2% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1475 points
1966 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

441 points
957 points
117% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1475 points
1970 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

451 points
956 points
111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
3.5 GHz
25% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
35 W
171% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

783rd of 1,089
813th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Athlon Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-860 vs Athlon 3000G benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon 3000G beats the Core i7-860 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-860 in all gaming tests too.

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.

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