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Best Bench: 54% Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 34% Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg)

Poor: 34% Great: 54%

SPEED RANK: 920^th / 1442

Gaming 45%

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Desktop 51%

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Workstation 33%

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Best Bench: 80% Base clock 3.9 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 58% Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 0.55 GHz (avg)

Poor: 58% Great: 80%

SPEED RANK: 380^th / 1442

Gaming 71%

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Desktop 72%

Battleship

Workstation 69%

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		45.4 %			71 %	Much faster effective speed. +56%


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	61.7 Pts	70.1 Pts	Lower memory latency. +14%
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	62.3 Pts	103 Pts	Much faster single-core speed. +65%
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	112 Pts	202 Pts	Hugely faster dual-core speed. +80%
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	170 Pts	386 Pts	Hugely faster quad-core speed. +127%
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	174 Pts	674 Pts	Hugely faster octa-core speed. +287%


Memory OC Memory Latency	76.1 Pts	79.7 Pts	+5%
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	70.1 Pts	116 Pts	Much faster OC single-core speed. +65%
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	131 Pts	226 Pts	Much faster OC dual-core speed. +73%
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	205 Pts	444 Pts	Hugely faster OC quad-core speed. +117%
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	204 Pts	813 Pts	Hugely faster OC octa-core speed. +299%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0 %		0.03 %	Insanely higher market share. +∞%
Value Value For Money	72.3 %		75.3 %	+4%
User Rating UBM User Rating	54 %		70 %	More popular. +30%
Price Price (score)	$51	Much cheaper. +77%	$225


Age Newest	116 Months		85 Months	More recent. +27%
TDP Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watts		95 Watts
Cores CPU Processing Cores	4 cores		8 cores	Hugely higher core count. +100%
Threads CPU Processing Threads	4 threads		16 threads	Hugely higher thread count. +300%
Lithography Manufacturing process	28 nm		14 nm	Much newer manufacturing. +50%
Base Clock Base Clock Speed	3.7 GHz	Slightly faster base frequency. +9%	3.4 GHz
Turbo Clock Turbo Clock Speed	4 GHz	Slightly faster turbo frequency. +5%	3.8 GHz
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	204 Pts		1183 Pts	Hugely faster OC 64-core speed. +480%
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	175 Pts		1032 Pts	Hugely faster 64-core speed. +490%


Series CPU Architecture	Steamroller	Zen
Socket Motherboard Socket	FM2+	AM4
Graphics Integrated Graphics	None	None

The AMD Athlon X4 860K is a quad core budget processor. Released in mid 2014, the 860K is based on the steamroller architecture which also powers some of AMD's more recent APUs including the A10-7850K. In addition to a 3.7 GHz steamroller chip, the A10-7850K also includes integrated R7 graphics. Comparing the CPU performance of the A10-7850K and 860K shows that the two processors perform almost identically. A key comparable for the 860K is Intel's G3258 which is an unlocked dual core Pentium. Comparing the G3258 and X4 860K shows that the G3258 leads by as much as 70% for dual and single core workloads but the 860K outperforms the G3258 by around 20% on multi-core workloads. The G3258 wins hands down for Desktop computing which is heavily single and dual core dominated but for some (relatively rare) gaming workloads the X4 860K will outperform the G3258. ^{[Mar '15 CPUPro]}

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The AMD Ryzen 7 1700X isn't due for release until next week but two of our users have already submitted benchmarks. Comparing the quad and single core scores from our samples shows a relative 4.3% boost on the single core score so it’s possible that turbo wasn’t fully engaged (12% turbo boost expected). These preliminary results are seriously impressive as they put Zen’s IPC between 0% and 9% below Intel’s Kaby Lake. Even in the worst case scenario these results are still impressive. Comparing Intel’s $1,000 6900K and the 1700X shows that AMD delivers comparable performance for half the price! A shake-up of the CPU market will unfold as Zen rolls out. If Ryzen CPUs can overclock to 4.6+ GHz they will likely dominate the entire market putting a very welcome end to the monotonous tick-tock of recent years. ^{[Feb '17 CPUPro]}

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