Intel Core i5-8259U vs AMD FX-8300

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

9% slightly better overall score

2211 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4204 points

26% slightly better gaming score

3316 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1922 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

1866 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1847 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

1792 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.05 points

85% significantly higher Blender score

35.10 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4030 points

124% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1799 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1206 points

156% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4117 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1719 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1241 points

170% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

459 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

3.3 GHz

43% 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

239% significantly lower TDP

95 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

681st 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-8300 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8300 is faster 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. Our comparison shows that the FX-8300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8259U. In terms of cache, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8259U. The FX-8300 also has slightly 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 i5-8259U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.