Intel Core i5-8259U vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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

3147 points

30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4204 points

4989 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1922 points

2595 points

35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1847 points

2494 points

35% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.05 points

0.90% slightly higher Blender score

64.47 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4025 points

5149 points

27% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4117 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3685 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1241 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1171 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

2.80 GHz

21% slightly 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

15 W

86% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

Identical

256 KiB

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

49% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

641st of 1,089

518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8259U vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8259U performs better than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8259U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7520U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8259U. Despite this, the Core i5-8259U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U.

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.