Intel Core i7-860 vs AMD FX-870K

Core i7-860 vs FX-870K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-860 beats the FX-870K in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-870K 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 FX-870K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-870K. Our comparison shows that the FX-870K 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.