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Is the Intel Core i5-8279U @ 2.40GHz 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: 2.4 GHz
Turbo Speed: 4.1 GHz
Cores: 4 Threads: 8
Typical TDP: 28 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) i5-8279U CPU @ 2.40GHz, Intel Core i5-8279U CPU @ 2.40GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q3 2019
CPUmark/$Price: 23.38
Overall Rank:
1537th fastest in multithreading out of 5039 CPUs
1149th fastest in single threading out of 5039 CPUs
358th fastest in out of 1455 Laptop CPUs
Last Price Change: $320.00 USD (2019-04-01)
| Integer Math | 24,893 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 14,285 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 35 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 12,452 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 2,657 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 101,778 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 784 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 5,001 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,295 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,126 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 20,920 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 20,159 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 18,342 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 16,822 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,640 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,146 | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | 11,724 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 10,727 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 9,632 | |
| Intel Core i5-8279U @ 2.40GHz | 7,481 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 51.04 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 31.17 | |
| Intel Core i5-8279U @ 2.40GHz | 23.38 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 11.17 | |
| 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 5600H | NA | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,902 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,836 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,682 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 3,054 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 3,035 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 2,926 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 2,660 | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,642 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 2,603 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,411 | |
| Intel Core i5-8279U @ 2.40GHz | 2,295 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL5090342 - Mar 27 2025 | 7236 | |
| BL5089870 - Mar 21 2025 | 6212 | |
| BL2496022 - Mar 20 2025 | 7003 | |
| BL5089587 - Mar 17 2025 | 5506 | |
| BL5088717 - Mar 08 2025 | 8271 |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX | 8,353 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265 | 8,128 | |
| AMD RYZEN AI MAX 390 w/ Radeon 8050S | 7,221 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900HX | 7,072 | |
| Intel Core 7 250H | 6,905 | |
| Intel Core i9-13950HX | 6,835 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900HX | 6,818 | |
| Intel Core i9-13980HX | 6,791 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D | 6,539 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7840HX | 6,302 | |
| Intel Core i7-14700HX | 6,172 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX | 6,162 | |
| Intel Core i5-8279U @ 2.40GHz | 1,075 |
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