AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS vs Intel Core i5-8259U

Ryzen 7 4800HS vs Core i5-8259U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 4800HS 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 4800HS has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-8259U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8259U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 4800HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8259U. Also, the Ryzen 7 4800HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8259U outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 4800HS thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 4800HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8259U. The Ryzen 7 4800HS 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 4800HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.