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AMD Athlon X4 860K: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
Summary
AMD started Athlon X4 860K sales 12 August 2014. This is a Kaveri architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 28 nm manufacturing technology, with a max turbo frequency of 4000 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket FM2+ processor with a TDP of 95 Watt and a maximum temperature of 72 °C. It supports DDR3-2133 memory.
It provides poor benchmark performance at 2.23% of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.
General info
Athlon X4 860K processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | 1714 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Value for money | 0.57 | |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | |
| Architecture codename | Kaveri (2014−2015) | |
| Release date | 12 August 2014 (9 years old) | |
| Current price | $55 | of 17802 (Threadripper PRO 7995WX) |
Value for money
Technical specs
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 4 (Quad-Core) | |
| Threads | 4 | |
| Base clock speed | 3.7 GHz | of 4.7 (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 4 GHz | of 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 256K | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 4 MB | of 36 (Apple M2 Max) |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | of 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 245 mm2 | |
| Maximum case temperature (TCase) | 72 °C | of 105 (Core i7-5950HQ) |
| Number of transistors | 2,411 million | of 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Unlocked multiplier | Yes |
Compatibility
Information on Athlon X4 860K compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.
| Number of CPUs in a configuration | 1 | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | FM2+ | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 95 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Athlon X4 860K. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| AES-NI | + | |
| FMA | + | |
| AVX | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| AMD-V | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Athlon X4 860K's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3-2133 |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | of 5 (Core i9-12900K) |
| PCI Express lanes | 16 | of 128 (EPYC 7551P) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon X4 860K. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.
Benchmark coverage: 68%
GeekBench 5 Single-Core
GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.
Benchmark coverage: 42%
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.
Benchmark coverage: 42%
3DMark Fire Strike Physics
Benchmark coverage: 4%
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Relative perfomance
Overall Athlon X4 860K performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.
Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Athlon X4 860K is Core i5-2300, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our ranking.
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Similar processors
Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Athlon X4 860K, according to our PC configuration statistics.
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These are the fastest graphics cards for Athlon X4 860K in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 2251 configurations based on Athlon X4 860K in our database.
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