| Attribute |
Intel Core i5-8259U × | 
AMD FX-8350 × |
| General Information | | |
| Brand | Intel | AMD |
| Series | Intel Core i5 | AMD FX |
| Model | Intel Core i5-8259U | AMD FX-8350 |
| CPU Cores and Base Frequency | | |
| CPU Cores | 4 | 8 |
| Frequency (GHz) | 2.3 | 4 |
| CPU Threads | 8 | 8 |
| Core architecture | normal | normal |
| Hyperthreading | + | - |
| Overclocking | - | + |
| Turbo (1 Core) (GHz) | 3.8 | 4.2 |
| Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz) | 3.2 | - |
| Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz) | - | 4.1 |
| Encryption | | |
| AES-NI | + | + |
| Hardware codec support | | |
| JPEG | Decode / Encode | No |
| h264 | Decode / Encode | No |
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit) | Decode / Encode | No |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit) | Decode / Encode | No |
| VP8 | Decode / Encode | No |
| AV1 | No | No |
| VC-1 | Decode | No |
| VP9 | Decode / Encode | No |
| AVC | Decode / Encode | No |
| Internal Graphics | | |
| GPU name | Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 | - |
| GPU frequency (GHz) | 0.3 | - |
| GPU (Turbo) (GHz) | 1.05 | - |
| Generation | 9 | - |
| DirectX Version | 12 | - |
| Execution units | 48 | - |
| Shader | 384 | - |
| Max. GPU Memory (GB) | 32 | - |
| Max. displays | 3 | - |
| GPU Release date (year) | 2017 | - |
| Memory And PCIe | | |
| Memory type | DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM | - |
| Max. Memory (GB) | 32 | - |
| PCIe lanes | 16 | - |
| PCIe version | 3.0 | - |
| ECC | - | + |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| Technical details | | |
| Release date (year) | 2018 | 2012 |
| Technology (Nm) | 14 | 32 |
| Socket | BGA 1528 | AM3+ |
| Virtualization | | |
| L3-Cache (MB) | 6 | 8 |
| Architecture | Coffee Lake U | Vishera |
| Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| Thermal Management | | |
| TDP (PL1) (W) | 28 | 125 |
| Benchmarks | | |
| iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS) | 806 | - |
| Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark | 11,002 | 9,068 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 973 | 573 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 3,983 | 2,777 |
| Cinebench R15 (Single-Core) | 162 | 96 |
| Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core) | 770 | 665 |
| Cinebench R20 (Single-Core) | 377 | 209 |
| Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core) | 1,684 | 1,298 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 1.81 | 1.11 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 8.29 | 6.94 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core) | 4,116 | 2,144 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 15,364 | 11,164 |
| Blender 2.81 (bmw27) | - | 691.3 |
| Cinebench R23 (Single-Core) | 903 | 579 |
| Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core) | 3,579 | 3,803 |