AMD FX-9830P vs Intel Core i5-8250U. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Family
  AMD FX Intel Core i5
• CPU group
  AMD FX-9800 Intel Core i 8000U
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  4 8

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  3.00 GHz 1.60 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge) Intel UHD Graphics 620
• GPU frequency
  0.90 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  8 24
• Shader
  512 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 64 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  6 9.5
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q3/2016

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-8250U and AMD FX-9830P. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD FX-9830P and Intel Core i5-8250U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  35 W 15 W
• TDP up
  45 W --
• TDP down
  25 W --
• Tjunction max.
  90 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD FX-9830P and AMD FX-9830P, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 6.00 MB
• Architecture
  Excavator (Bristol Ridge) Kaby Lake U Refresh
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Socket
  FP4 BGA 1356
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q3/2017