Intel Core i5-8259U vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3350G

Core i5-8259U vs Ryzen 5 PRO 3350G specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3350G is faster than the Core i5-8259U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8259U in all gaming tests too.

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 Ryzen 5 PRO 3350G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8259U. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3350G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8259U. Despite this, the Core i5-8259U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3350G.

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.