AMD FX-870K vs AMD PRO A8-8670E

FX-870K vs PRO A8-8670E benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-870K beats the PRO A8-8670E in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the PRO A8-8670E in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the PRO A8-8670E has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-870K that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-870K has a slightly higher clock speed than the PRO A8-8670E. The info from our database shows that the FX-870K has more L2 cache than the PRO A8-8670E

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