Athlon X4 860K: specs and benchmarks

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Athlon X4 860K
2014
4 cores / 4 threads, 95 Watt
2.16

Athlon X4 860K provides poor benchmark performance at 2.16% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

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.

Primary details

Athlon X4 860K processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking1860
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processor
Power efficiency2.15of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameKaveri (2014−2015)
Release date12 August 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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 cores4 (Quad-Core)
Threads4
Base clock speed3.7 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed4 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache256Kof 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache4 MBof 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
Chip lithography28 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size245 mm2
Maximum case temperature (TCase)72 °Cof 105 °C (Core i7-5950HQ)
Number of transistors2,411 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Unlocked multiplier+

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 configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFM2+
Power consumption (TDP)95 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

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 typesDDR3-2133

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)
PCI Express lanes16of 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.

Athlon X4 860K 2.16

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.

Athlon X4 860K 3431

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.

Athlon X4 860K 459

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.

Athlon X4 860K 1127

3DMark Fire Strike Physics

Athlon X4 860K 3910

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Athlon X4 860K's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


Athlon X4 860K 100
A10-7850K 99.07

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 higher by 1 position in our ranking.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to Athlon X4 860K:

Core i3-4340 100.93
Athlon X4 860K 100
Core i3-4150 99.07

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.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Athlon X4 860K in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 2907 configurations using Athlon X4 860K in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.5% (14/2907)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.03% (1/2907)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.07% (2/2907)
RX 6950 XT Radeon RX 6950 XT
0.03% (1/2907)
RX 7700 XT Radeon RX 7700 XT
0.03% (1/2907)
RX 6750 XT Radeon RX 6750 XT
0.03% (1/2907)
RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
0.2% (6/2907)
RX 6700 XT Radeon RX 6700 XT
0.03% (1/2907)
RTX 4060 GeForce RTX 4060
0.03% (1/2907)
TITAN Xp TITAN Xp
0.03% (1/2907)

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