AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Core i7-860

FX-4300 vs Core i7-860 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-4300 beats the Core i7-860 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-860 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-860 has significantly more cores than the FX-4300. Indeed, the Core i7-860 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the FX-4300. It also has more threads than the FX-4300. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-860. 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the FX-4300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.