Intel Core i5-8259U vs AMD FX-8370E

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

11% slightly better overall score

2163 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4204 points

29% slightly better gaming score

3237 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1922 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

1826 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1847 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

1753 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.05 points

88% significantly higher Blender score

34.44 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

4.3 GHz

13% 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

691st 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

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8259U vs FX-8370E benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8370E 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-8370E has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8259U. Also, the FX-8370E has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8259U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8370E CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the FX-8370E has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8259U. The FX-8370E 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.