Core i7-920 vs Athlon X4 860K comparison
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-920 performs better than the Athlon X4 860K. Despite this, the Athlon X4 860K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-920 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon X4 860K that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 860K. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 860K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-920. The Athlon X4 860K outputs less heat than Core i7-920 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-920 has more L2 cache than the Athlon X4 860K
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 i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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