AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD Athlon X4 860K

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Athlon X4 860K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600 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 3600 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 3600. A Ryzen 5 3600 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. In terms of cache, the Athlon X4 860K has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3600

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 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.