AMD A10-7800 vs AMD Athlon II X4 860K. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD A AMD Athlon II
• Generation
  4 1
• CPU group
  AMD A10-7000 AMD Athlon II (Kaveri)

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
  3.50 GHz 3.70 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.90 GHz 4.00 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Turbo (4 Cores)
  3.70 GHz 4.00 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• 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
  AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Kaveri) no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.72 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  8
• Shader
  512
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  2
• Generation
  6
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  28 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2014

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon II X4 860K and AMD A10-7800. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 DDR3-1866
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A10-7800 and AMD Athlon II X4 860K to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 95 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A10-7800 and AMD A10-7800, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE3
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Kaveri (Steamroller) Kaveri
• Technology
  28 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  FM2+ FM2+
• Release date
  Q1/2014 Q4/2014