Intel Core i5-8259U vs Intel Celeron J4005

Core i5-8259U vs Celeron J4005 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8259U performs better than the Celeron J4005. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron J4005 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-8259U has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Celeron J4005 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron J4005. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8259U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Celeron J4005. The Celeron J4005 outputs less heat than Core i5-8259U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-8259U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.