AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Athlon X4 760K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X is faster than the Athlon X4 760K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 760K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Athlon X4 760K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 760K. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 7 5800X and Athlon X4 760K are identical in this regard. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800X

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 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.