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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 ...]
Description: 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: 23.32
Overall Rank:
1556th fastest in multithreading out of 5057 CPUs
1213th fastest in single threading out of 5057 CPUs
368th fastest in out of 1463 Laptop CPUs
Last Price Change: $320.00 USD (2019-07-01)
| Integer Math | 25,076 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 13,925 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 35 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 12,086 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 2,726 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 104,468 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 810 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 4,657 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,261 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,129 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 20,906 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 20,144 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 18,319 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 16,811 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,645 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,143 | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | 11,718 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 10,723 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 9,621 | |
| Intel Core i5-8257U @ 1.40GHz | 7,463 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 51.00 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 31.13 | |
| Intel Core i5-8257U @ 1.40GHz | 23.32 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 11.17 | |
| 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 7 4800H | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | NA | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,902 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,836 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,681 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 3,053 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 3,034 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 2,927 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 2,658 | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,641 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 2,602 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,411 | |
| Intel Core i5-8257U @ 1.40GHz | 2,261 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL5091366 - Apr 08 2025 | 8534 | |
| BL5091284 - Apr 07 2025 | 7444 | |
| BL5090619 - Mar 30 2025 | 6075 | |
| BL5090489 - Mar 28 2025 | 7048 | |
| BL5090417 - Mar 28 2025 | 7627 |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX | 8,719 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265 | 8,110 | |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 | 7,221 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900HX | 7,073 | |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 390 | 7,040 | |
| Intel Core 7 250H | 6,905 | |
| Intel Core i9-13950HX | 6,823 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900HX | 6,810 | |
| Intel Core i9-13980HX | 6,788 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D | 6,552 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7840HX | 6,302 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX | 6,166 | |
| Intel Core i5-8257U @ 1.40GHz | 1,093 |
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