AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs AMD Athlon X4 860K

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Athlon X4 860K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600X 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 5600X 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. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 5 5600X and Athlon X4 860K are identical in this regard. A Ryzen 5 5600X 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 5600X

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