Intel Core i7-860 vs AMD Athlon X4 870K

Core i7-860 vs Athlon X4 870K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-860 is faster than the Athlon X4 870K. Despite this, the Athlon X4 870K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-860 has significantly more cores than the Athlon X4 870K. Indeed, the Core i7-860 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon X4 870K. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 870K. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-860. Also, the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.