AMD Ryzen 7 160 vs Intel Core i5 8279U

CPU Specs Compare

C

AMD Ryzen 7 160

AMD 2025-10
C

Intel Core i5 8279U

Intel 2019-05

General Parameters

Release Date
Oct 2025
May 2019
Manufacturer
AMD
Intel
Type
Laptop
Laptop
Core Architecture
Rembrandt-R
Coffee Lake
Integrated Graphics
Radeon 680M
Iris Plus Graphics 655
Generation
Ryzen 7 (Zen 3+ (Rembrandt))
-
Instruction Set
-
x86-64
Processor Number
-
i5-8279U

Package

Manufacturing Process
6 nm
14 nm
Socket
AMD Socket FP7
BGA-1528
Power Consumption
28 W
28 W
Peak Operating Temperature
95°C
100 °C
Foundry
TSMC
-
Die Size
210 mm²
-
Package
FP7r2
-

CPU Performance

Performance Core Base Frequency
2.7 GHz
2.4 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
4.75 GHz
4.1 GHz
Total Core Count
8
4
Total Thread Count
16
8
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
100 MHz
Multiplier
27.0
24x
L1 Cache
64 KB per core
32 K per core
L2 Cache
512 KB per core
256 K per core
L3 Cache
16 MB shared
6 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
No
No
SMP
1
-
Performance Cores
-
4
Performance Core Threads
-
8

Memory Parameters

Memory Types
DDR5-4800
DDR4-2400, LPDDR3-2133
Max Memory Channels
2
2
ECC Memory Support
Yes
No
Max Memory Size
-
32 GB
Max Memory Bandwidth
-
37.5 GB/s

Miscellaneous

PCIe Version
4
3.0
PCIe Lanes
20
16
Official Website
-
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

📊 Benchmark

Geekbench 6
2,343
1,313
Geekbench 6
10,635
4,465
Cinebench R23
-
1,085
Cinebench R23
-
4,440
Geekbench 5
-
951
Geekbench 5
-
3,929
Blender
-
59
Passmark CPU
-
2,365
Passmark CPU
-
7,732