AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Athlon X4 760K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 2600 performs better than the Athlon X4 760K. 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 Ryzen 5 2600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Athlon X4 760K that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 760K. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 760K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 2600. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 2600

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 Ryzen 5 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.