Intel Core i5-8250U vs AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1907 points
8139 points
326% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3207 points
9987 points
211% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1532 points
7532 points
391% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1465 points
7360 points
402% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

1696 points
7427 points
337% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.03 points
207.75 points
446% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.6 GHz
3.80 GHz
137% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
5.1 GHz
49% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
200% significantly lower TDP
45 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
8 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
16 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

738th of 1,089
144th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2023 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-8250U vs Ryzen 7 8845HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 8845HS is faster than the Core i5-8250U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8250U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 8845HS has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-8250U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8250U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8845HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8250U. Also, the Ryzen 7 8845HS has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8250U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 8845HS CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8845HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8250U. The Ryzen 7 8845HS also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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