AMD FX-8350 vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

FX-8350 vs Athlon X4 760K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8350 beats the Athlon X4 760K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 760K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-8350 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon X4 760K that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 760K. Our comparison shows that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon X4 760K. In terms of cache, the Athlon X4 760K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the FX-8350

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-8350 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.