Intel Core i5-8259U vs AMD FX-8150

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 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

2416 points

5% slightly better overall score

2289 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4204 points

25% slightly better gaming score

3360 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1922 points

1951 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1847 points

1878 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.05 points

85% significantly higher Blender score

35.07 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4030 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2396 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1206 points

135% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

512 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4117 points

134% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1758 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1241 points

178% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

445 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

3.6 GHz

56% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

28 W

346% significantly lower TDP

125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

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

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

641st of 1,089

664th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8259U vs FX-8150 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8150 performs better than the Core i5-8259U. Despite this, the Core i5-8259U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8150 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8259U. A Core i5-8259U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8150 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 FX-8150 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8259U. The FX-8150 also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-8259U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.