Intel Core i7-860 vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Core i7-860 vs Athlon II X4 651 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-860 beats the Athlon II X4 651 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 651 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.