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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: 15.18
Overall Rank: 1285
Last Price Change: $519.99 USD (2021-05-22)
| Integer Math | 24,713 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 14,872 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 37 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 13,408 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 2,722 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 106,678 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 821 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 6,086 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,204 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,031 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 21,075 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 20,588 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 18,572 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 17,024 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,490 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,181 | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | 11,906 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 10,868 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 9,809 | |
| Intel Core i5-8259U @ 2.30GHz | 7,894 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 52.12 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 31.75 | |
| Intel Core i5-8259U @ 2.30GHz | 15.18 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 11.32 | |
| 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 | 3,923 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,837 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,700 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 3,084 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 3,049 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 2,949 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 2,688 | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,662 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 2,617 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,432 | |
| Intel Core i5-8259U @ 2.30GHz | 2,204 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL2109879 - May 26 2024 | 8249 | |
| BL2105027 - May 20 2024 [Excluded] | 1973 | |
| BL5064468 - May 18 2024 | 8415 | |
| BL5064419 - May 18 2024 | 7568 | |
| BL5064144 - May 14 2024 | 8355 |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900HX | 7,162 | |
| Intel Core i9-13950HX | 7,000 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900HX | 6,882 | |
| Intel Core i9-13980HX | 6,692 | |
| Intel Core i7-14650HX | 6,658 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D | 6,622 | |
| Intel Core i7-13850HX | 6,415 | |
| Intel Core i9-13905H | 6,221 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900HK | 6,190 | |
| Intel Core i5-14500HX | 6,147 | |
| Intel Core i7-14700HX | 6,056 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 185H | 6,010 | |
| Intel Core i5-8259U @ 2.30GHz | 1,629 |
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