AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs AMD Athlon X4 860K

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Athlon X4 860K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 1600 performs better than the Athlon X4 860K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 860K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more cores than the Athlon X4 860K. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has 6 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 Ryzen 5 1600. A Ryzen 5 1600 CPU outputs less heat than a Athlon X4 860K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Athlon X4 860K has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 1600

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 Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.