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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: 23.45
Overall Rank:
1665th fastest in multithreading out of 5265 CPUs
1244th fastest in single threading out of 5265 CPUs
398th fastest in out of 1498 Laptop CPUs
Last Price Change: $320.00 USD (2019-04-01)
| Integer Math | 24,941 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 14,335 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 35 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 12,487 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 2,667 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 101,839 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 786 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 5,024 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,299 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,145 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 20,811 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 20,033 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 18,234 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 16,701 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,656 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,148 | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | 11,631 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 10,685 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 9,521 | |
| Intel Core i5-8279U @ 2.40GHz | 7,503 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 50.72 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 30.81 | |
| Intel Core i5-8279U @ 2.40GHz | 23.45 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 11.13 | |
| 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 5 5600H | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | NA | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,900 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,836 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,680 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 3,045 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 3,024 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 2,912 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 2,642 | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,628 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 2,598 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,406 | |
| Intel Core i5-8279U @ 2.40GHz | 2,299 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL2747858 - Jul 07 2025 | 7828 | |
| BL5097890 - Jul 04 2025 | 8020 | |
| BL2736033 - Jul 02 2025 | 7383 | |
| BL5096629 - Jun 17 2025 | 8417 | |
| BL2662536 - May 30 2025 | 5393 |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D | 9,909 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX | 9,001 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX | 8,134 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265H | 7,783 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900HX | 7,048 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900HX | 6,779 | |
| Intel Core i9-13980HX | 6,754 | |
| Intel Core i9-13950HX | 6,751 | |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 390 | 6,743 | |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 | 6,686 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D | 6,618 | |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 | 6,447 | |
| Intel Core i5-8279U @ 2.40GHz | 1,078 |
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