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Intel Core i5-4430 vs AMD A6-3500

Last updated: 2026-04-07

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-4430

Rank 2 - 39 %

AMD A6-3500

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-4430

Rank 2 - 36 %

AMD A6-3500

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.20 GHz

280 cb

3C / 3T · 2.40 GHz

135 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.20 GHz

771

3C / 3T · 2.40 GHz

303

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

1,132 cb

3C / 3T · 2.40 GHz

368 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

2,630

3C / 3T · 2.40 GHz

766

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 4600

352

AMD Radeon HD 6530D

284

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

448 cb

3C / 3T · 2.40 GHz

166 cb

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-4430	AMD A6-3500
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	AMD A (112)
CPU group	Intel Core i 4000 (64)	AMD A6-3000 (5)
Architecture	Haswell S	Llano (K10)
Technology	22 nm	32 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 1150	FM1
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-4430	AMD A6-3500
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	3 / 3
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	3x
Frequency:	3.00 GHz	2.10 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.20 GHz	2.40 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.10 GHz	2.40 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	6.00 MB	3.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-4430	AMD A6-3500
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 4600	AMD Radeon HD 6530D
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.10 GHz	0.44 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 160	5 / 320
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	0
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	1 GB
Technology	22 nm	32 nm
Release date	Q2/2013	Q4/2010

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-4430	AMD A6-3500
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-4430	AMD A6-3500
Memory	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-4430	AMD A6-3500
TDP	84 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-4430	AMD A6-3500
Chip design	Monolithic	Unknown
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE3, SSE4a
Release date	Q2/2013	Q3/2011
Release price	155 $	47 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i5-4430 is 4.7 stars (11 ratings), while AMD A6-3500 has received 5.0 stars (7 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i5-4430
4C / 4T · 3.00 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

AMD A6-3500
3C / 3T · 2.10 - 2.40 GHz

★★★★★