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Is the Intel Core i5-8257U @ 1.40GHz 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 ...]
MultithreadDescription: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645
Class: Laptop
Socket: FCBGA1528
Clockspeed: 1.4 GHz
Turbo Speed: 3.9 GHz
Cores: 4 Threads: 8
Typical TDP: 15 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) i5-8257U CPU @ 1.40GHz, Intel Core i5-8257U CPU @ 1.40GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q4 2019
CPUmark/$Price: 23.08
Overall Rank:
2059th fastest in multithreading out of 6042 CPUs
1665th fastest in single threading out of 6042 CPUs
477th fastest in out of 1652 Laptop CPUs
Last Price Change: $320.00 USD (2019-07-01)
| Integer Math | 24,706 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 13,770 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 34 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 11,999 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 2,695 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 103,047 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 803 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 4,649 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,232 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-12700H | 24,933 | |
| Apple M4 10 Core | 23,570 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 20,448 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 19,564 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 17,803 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 16,340 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,647 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,120 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 10,541 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 9,288 | |
| Intel Core i5-8257U @ 1.40GHz | 7,385 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-12700H | 54.56 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 49.53 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 30.06 | |
| Intel Core i5-8257U @ 1.40GHz | 23.08 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 10.98 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M4 10 Core | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M4 10 Core | 4,491 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,881 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,672 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700H | 3,479 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 3,004 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 2,986 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 2,869 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 2,593 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 2,578 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,382 | |
| Intel Core i5-8257U @ 1.40GHz | 2,232 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL5126335 - Sep 25 2026 | 5787 | |
| BL3729281 - Sep 21 2026 | 6815 | |
| BL3721927 - Sep 17 2026 | 5846 | |
| BL5125848 - Sep 17 2026 | 7801 | |
| BL5125832 - Sep 17 2026 | 4770 |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D | 9,751 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus | 9,237 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX | 9,062 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX | 8,939 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus | 8,855 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 251HX | 8,419 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 5 235HX | 7,987 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265HX | 7,829 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX | 7,699 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285H | 7,645 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265H | 7,599 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9850HX | 7,294 | |
| Intel Core i5-8257U @ 1.40GHz | 1,083 |
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