AMD FX-6100 vs AMD Athlon X4 860K

FX-6100 vs Athlon X4 860K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-6100 beats the Athlon X4 860K in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon X4 860K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-6100 has significantly more cores than the Athlon X4 860K. Indeed, the FX-6100 has 3 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon X4 860K. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 860K. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 860K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-6100. In terms of cache, the FX-6100 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to 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 FX-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.