Product Compare

AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i5 8279U

	CPU AMD Ryzen 5 1500X	CPU Intel Core i5 8279U
General Parameters
Release Date	Apr 2017	May 2019
Manufacturer	AMD	Intel
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Instruction Set	x86-64	x86-64
Core Architecture	Zen	Coffee Lake
Integrated Graphics	N/A	Iris Plus Graphics 655
Processor Number		i5-8279U
Package
Transistor Count	4.8 billions
Manufacturing Process	14 nm	14 nm
Socket	AM4	BGA-1528
Power Consumption	65 W	28 W
Peak Operating Temperature	95 °C	100 °C
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	4	4
Performance Core Threads	8	8
Performance Core Base Frequency	3.5 GHz	2.4 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	3.7 GHz	4.1 GHz
Total Core Count	4	4
Total Thread Count	8	8
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	35x	24x
L1 Cache	96 K per core	32 K per core
L2 Cache	512 K per core	256 K per core
L3 Cache	16 MB shared	6 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	Yes	No
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR4-2666	DDR4-2400, LPDDR3-2133
Max Memory Size	64 GB	32 GB
Max Memory Channels	2	2
Max Memory Bandwidth	39.74 GB/s	37.5 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	Yes	No
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	3.0	3.0
PCIe Lanes	20	16
Extended Instruction Set		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics		true
GPU Base Frequency		300 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency		1150 MHz
Shader Units		384
Texture Units		48
Raster Operation Units		6
Execution Units		48
Power Consumption		15 W
Max Resolution		4096x2304 - 60 Hz
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	930	1085
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	4641	4440
Geekbench 6 Single Core	1136	1313
Geekbench 5 Single Core	918	951
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	3734	4465
Geekbench 5 Multi Core	3861	3929
Passmark CPU Single Core	2111	2365
Passmark CPU Multi Core	9063	7732