AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs AMD Athlon X4 860K

Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs Athlon X4 860K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Athlon X4 860K that 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 7 5800X3D. The Athlon X4 860K outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X3D thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches

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 7 5800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.