AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Core i5-8259U

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Core i5-8259U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5700U is faster 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 7 5700U has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8259U. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700U has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-8259U. 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 5700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700U 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 5700U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8259U. The Ryzen 7 5700U also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 7 5700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.