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

Ryzen 7 4800U vs Core i5-8259U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 4800U 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 4800U has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-8259U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8259U. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8259U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 4800U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 4800U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 4800U 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 4800U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8259U. The Ryzen 7 4800U 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 4800U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.