Intel Core i7-860 vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Core i7-860 vs Athlon II X4 651 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 651 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-860 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X4 651 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-860.

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 i7-860 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.