Xeon E3-1231 v3 vs Athlon X4 860K benchmarks
In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1231 v3 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 Xeon E3-1231 v3 has significantly more cores with 4 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 Xeon E3-1231 v3. A Xeon E3-1231 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Athlon X4 860K CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.
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 Xeon E3-1231 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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