AMD Ryzen 5 4500U vs Intel Core i5-8259U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 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

3472 points
43% significantly better overall score
2416 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5565 points
32% slightly better gaming score
4204 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2824 points
46% significantly better multitasking score
1922 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2709 points
46% significantly better heavy workload score
1847 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.25 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
65.05 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

5920 points
47% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
4025 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
Identical
2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
86% significantly lower TDP
28 W

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

3 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

487th of 1,089
641st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 4500U vs Core i5-8259U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 4500U performs better than the Core i5-8259U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8259U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 4500U has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8259U. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4500U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-8259U. Despite this, the Core i5-8259U has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4500U. Both the Ryzen 5 4500U and Core i5-8259U have the same clock speed. A Ryzen 5 4500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8259U 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 Ryzen 5 4500U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8259U. The Ryzen 5 4500U also has slightly 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 4500U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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