AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs AMD Athlon X4 860K

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Athlon X4 860K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2600 beats the Athlon X4 860K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 860K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 2600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Athlon X4 860K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 860K. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 860K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 2600. A Ryzen 5 2600 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon X4 860K has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 2600

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