Intel Core i7-860 vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

Core i7-860 vs Athlon X4 760K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-860 performs better than the Athlon X4 760K. Despite this, the Athlon X4 760K 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 X4 760K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 760K. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 760K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-860.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-860 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.