AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs AMD Athlon X4 860K

Ryzen 7 5700G vs Athlon X4 860K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700G 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5700G has significantly more cores than the Athlon X4 860K. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700G has 8 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon X4 860K. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 860K. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon X4 860K. A Ryzen 7 5700G 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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 7 5700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.