AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs AMD Athlon X4 860K

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Athlon X4 860K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600U is faster than the Athlon X4 860K. 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 5600U 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 significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600U. A Ryzen 5 5600U 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 5600U

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 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.