AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i5-8259U

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

3338 points
38% slightly better overall score
2416 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points
23% slightly better gaming score
4204 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points
44% significantly better multitasking score
1922 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points
44% significantly better heavy workload score
1847 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points
65.05 points
0.68% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4608 points
14% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
4025 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points
4030 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points
1206 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points
4117 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points
1241 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.5 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed
2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
3.8 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
28 W
132% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089
641st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Core i5-8259U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1500X beats the Core i5-8259U in overall performance. 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8259U. Despite this, the Core i5-8259U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8259U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1500X thanks to a 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 Ryzen 5 1500X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8259U. The Ryzen 5 1500X also has significantly 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 Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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