AMD Athlon II X4 860K vs Intel Core i5-7500. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD Athlon II Intel Core i5
• Generation
  1 7
• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II (Kaveri) Intel Core i 7000
• Predecessor
  -- Intel Core i5-6500
• Successor
  -- Intel Core i5-8500

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  3.70 GHz 3.40 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.00 GHz 3.80 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Turbo (4 Cores)
  4.00 GHz 3.60 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics 630
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  24
• Shader
  192
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 64 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9.5
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  14 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-7500 and AMD Athlon II X4 860K. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  64 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon II X4 860K and Intel Core i5-7500 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  95 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon II X4 860K and AMD Athlon II X4 860K, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 6.00 MB
• Architecture
  Kaveri Kaby Lake S
• Technology
  32 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  FM2+ LGA 1151
• Release date
  Q4/2014 Q1/2017