AMD Ryzen 5 2400GE vs Intel Core i5-8259U

Ryzen 5 2400GE vs Core i5-8259U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8259U beats the Ryzen 5 2400GE in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2400GE in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 2400GE has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8259U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i5-8259U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2400GE thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2400GE 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 2400GE.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2400GE has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.