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Is the Intel Core i5-8259U @ 2.30GHz Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. But this CPU contains 4 Cores and 8 Threads. Paired with a good videocard, is this CPU Good for Gaming? This CPU should be able to play most games, but may be a bottleneck on newer releases. [More ...]
Description: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655
Class: Laptop
Socket: FCBGA1528
Clockspeed: 2.3 GHz
Turbo Speed: 3.8 GHz
Cores: 4 Threads: 8
Typical TDP: 28 W
TDP Down: 20 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 4 x 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory Support: Max. Memory Size: 32 GB (DDR4-2400, LPDDR3-2133)
Other names: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8259U CPU @ 2.30GHz, Intel Core i5-8259U CPU @ 2.30GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q3 2018
CPUmark/$Price: 15.15
Overall Rank:
1393rd fastest in multithreading out of 4890 CPUs
1196th fastest in single threading out of 4890 CPUs
326th fastest in out of 1434 Laptop CPUs
Last Price Change: $519.99 USD (2021-05-22)
| Integer Math | 24,643 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 14,814 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 37 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 13,355 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 2,727 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 106,571 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 820 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 6,034 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,201 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,077 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 21,004 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 20,419 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 18,485 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,568 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,156 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | 13,016 | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | 11,837 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 10,805 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 9,735 | |
| Intel Core i5-8259U @ 2.30GHz | 7,876 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 51.69 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 31.50 | |
| Intel Core i5-8259U @ 2.30GHz | 15.15 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 11.25 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | NA | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,903 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,835 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,687 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 3,073 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 3,043 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 2,676 | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,654 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 2,613 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5500U | 2,440 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,421 | |
| Intel Core i5-8259U @ 2.30GHz | 2,201 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL5078850 - Nov 17 2024 | 8350 | |
| BL5078499 - Nov 13 2024 | 8069 | |
| BL5077755 - Nov 07 2024 | 6771 | |
| BL5077231 - Nov 02 2024 | 8905 | |
| BL2233707 - Oct 31 2024 | 5474 |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900HX | 7,112 | |
| Intel Core i9-13950HX | 7,003 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900HX | 6,915 | |
| Intel Core i9-13980HX | 6,817 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D | 6,593 | |
| Intel Core i7-13850HX | 6,273 | |
| Intel Core i7-14700HX | 6,226 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX | 6,201 | |
| Intel Core i7-14650HX | 6,010 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900HK | 5,960 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7840HX | 5,955 | |
| Intel Core i9-13905H | 5,940 | |
| Intel Core i5-8259U @ 2.30GHz | 1,095 |
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