Comparing AMD Athlon II X4 860K vs AMD Athlon II X4 860K

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• Name
  Intel Core i7-4960X AMD Athlon II X4 860K
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition AMD Athlon II
• Generation
  4 1
• CPU group
  Intel Core i 4000X AMD Athlon II (Kaveri)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• Frequency
  3.60 GHz 3.70 GHz
• CPU Cores
  6 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.00 GHz 4.00 GHz
• CPU Threads
  12 4
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal

• GPU name
  no iGPU no iGPU
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo

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

• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR3-1866
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  4 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  40

• AES-NI
  Yes No

• TDP (PL1)
  130 W 95 W

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE3
• L3-Cache
  15.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge E Kaveri
• Technology
  22 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  LGA 2011 FM2+
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q4/2014

• Used in
  Unknown Unknown