Intel Core i5-8259U vs AMD FX-8320E

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
3% slightly better overall score
2342 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4204 points
22% slightly better gaming score
3438 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1922 points
1993 points
3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1847 points
1917 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.05 points
80% significantly higher Blender score
36.00 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4030 points
149% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1615 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1206 points
177% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
434 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4117 points
145% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1680 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1241 points
183% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
437 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
3.2 GHz
39% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
4 GHz
5% 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
2 MiB
100% 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
651st 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
2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-8259U vs FX-8320E benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8320E performs better than the Core i5-8259U. Despite this, the Core i5-8259U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8320E has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8259U. A Core i5-8259U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8320E CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the FX-8320E has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8259U. The FX-8320E 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.

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