AMD FX-870K vs AMD Athlon X4 870K

Compare AMD 2 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1430 points

2% slightly better overall score

1400 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2728 points

1% slightly better gaming score

2698 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1078 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1049 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1035 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1006 points

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

3.89 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

830th of 1,089

839th of 1,089

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-870K vs Athlon X4 870K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-870K is faster than the Athlon X4 870K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 870K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-870K. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches

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 FX-870K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.