Intel Core i7-860 vs AMD Athlon Gold 3150U

Core i7-860 vs Athlon Gold 3150U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon Gold 3150U is faster than the Core i7-860. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-860 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-860 has significantly more cores than the Athlon Gold 3150U. Indeed, the Core i7-860 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon Gold 3150U. It also has more threads than the Athlon Gold 3150U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-860 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon Gold 3150U. Also, the Core i7-860 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Gold 3150U 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.