Intel Core i5-4430 Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-04-12

The Intel Core i5-4430 has 4 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 4. gen of the Intel Core i5 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 1150 socket and was released in Q2/2013. The Intel Core i5-4430 scores 771 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 2,630 points.

CPU lineage
The segment in which we have classified the Intel Core i5-4430. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Core i5-4430.
Name:	Intel Core i5-4430
Family:	Intel Core i5
CPU group:	Intel Core i 4000
Architecture:	Haswell S
Segment:	Desktop / Server
Generation:	4
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i5-4430 has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-4430 is 3.00 GHz (3.20 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads:	4 / 4
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	4x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	No
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	3.00 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	3.20 GHz
Turbo Frequency (4 Cores):	3.10 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i5-4430 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i5-4430 uses the Intel HD Graphics 4600, which has 160 texture shaders and 20 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name:	Intel HD Graphics 4600
GPU frequency:	0.35 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	1.10 GHz
Compute units:	20
Shader:	160
Max. GPU Memory:	2 GB

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	7.5
Direct X:	11.1
Technology:	22 nm
Release date:	Q2/2013

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit):	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	No
h264:	Decode / Encode
VP8:	No
VP9:	No

AV1:	No
AVC:	Decode / Encode
VC-1:	Decode
JPEG:	Decode

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The processor can use up to 32 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 25.6 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

DDR3-1600	25.6 GB/s
Max. Memory:	32 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	No
PCIe:	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth:	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 84 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	84 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	--

Technical details

The Intel Core i5-4430 is made in 22 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 6.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology:	22 nm
Chip design:	Monolithic
Socket:	LGA 1150
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	6.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 10, Linux

Virtualization:	VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date:	Q2/2013
Release price:	155 $
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Core i5-4430
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz (3.20 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Core i5-4430 have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i5-3475S 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	772
	Intel Core i7-3820 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	772
	Intel Core i7-4820K 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	772
	Intel Core i5-4430 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	771
	AMD Ryzen 3 3250C 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	771
	Intel Core i7-3740QM 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	771
	AMD Athlon Gold 3150C 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	770

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Ryzen 3 3350U 4C 4T @ 2.10 GHz	2645
	Intel Core i7-2860QM 4C 8T @ 2.50 GHz	2637
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus 8C 8T @ 2.96 GHz	2632
	Intel Core i5-4430 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	2630
	MediaTek Kompanio 820 8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz	2627
	Intel Core i3-8100H 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	2626
	Intel Core i5-4570S 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	2624

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	Intel Core i5-4440S 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	982
	Intel Core i7-4712HQ 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	982
	AMD Athlon 200GE 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	981
	Intel Core i5-4430 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	979
	Intel Core i5-6260U 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	979
	AMD Ryzen 5 3500U 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	976
	Intel Core i5-4670K 4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	975

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	Intel Core i7-4960X 6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz	3062
	Intel Processor N97 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	3051
	Intel Xeon D-1527 4C 8T @ 2.20 GHz	3011
	Intel Core i5-4430 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	3010
	Intel Core i7-4785T 4C 8T @ 2.70 GHz	2979
	Intel Core i5-8365UE 4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz	2960
	Intel Core i7-10510Y 4C 8T @ 2.40 GHz	2959

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U 6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz	282
	Intel Core i5-6200U 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	282
	Intel Core i7-6500U 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	282
	Intel Core i5-4430 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	280
	Intel Core i5-5300U 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	280
	Intel Core i7-4600U 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	280
	Intel Pentium Silver N6000 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	279

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Ryzen 3 1200 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	1191
	Intel Core i7-3770T 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	1189
	Intel Core i5-4460 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	1177
	Intel Core i5-4430 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	1132
	Intel Core i5-4690T 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	1111
	AMD Phenom II X6 1100T 6C 6T @ 3.70 GHz	1093
	Intel Core i5-4570 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	1089

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	AMD A8-3500M AMD Radeon HD 6620G @ 0.44 GHz	355
	AMD A8-3510MX AMD Radeon HD 6620G @ 0.44 GHz	355
	AMD A8-3520M AMD Radeon HD 6620G @ 0.44 GHz	355
	Intel Core i5-4430 Intel HD Graphics 4600 @ 1.10 GHz	352
	Intel Core i5-4440S Intel HD Graphics 4600 @ 1.10 GHz	352
	Intel Core i5-4430S Intel HD Graphics 4600 @ 1.10 GHz	352
	Intel Core i7-4510U Intel HD Graphics 4400 @ 1.10 GHz	352

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	Intel Core i5-6300HQ 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	4692
	Intel Core i5-6350HQ 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	4692
	AMD A10-5800K 4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	4683
	Intel Core i5-4430 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	4682
	AMD A8-7670K 4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	4682
	AMD A10-7870K 4C 4T @ 4.10 GHz	4682
	Intel Core i5-3470 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	4679

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	AMD FX-8300 8C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	1289
	AMD FX-8150 8C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	1287
	AMD FX-8370E 8C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	1284
	Intel Core i5-4430 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	1280
	Intel Core i5-3470S 4C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	1273
	Intel Core i7-920 4C 8T @ 2.66 GHz	1263
	Intel Core i7-2820QM 4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	1242

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i3-4160T 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	125
	Intel Pentium G3250 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	125
	Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4 16C 32T @ 3.00 GHz	125
	Intel Core i5-4430 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	124
	Intel Core i7-4701EQ 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	124
	Intel Core i7-4700EQ 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	124
	AMD Ryzen Embedded V1202B 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	124

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD Phenom II X6 1065T 6C 6T @ 3.40 GHz	460
	Intel Core i3-7350K 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	458
	AMD FX-6300 6C 6T @ 4.10 GHz	456
	Intel Core i5-4430 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	448
	Intel Core i5-4460S 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	448
	Intel Core i3-7320 2C 4T @ 4.10 GHz	447
	AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 6C 6T @ 3.30 GHz	446

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,439 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,412 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,700 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,649 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
648 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
596 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
1,954 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,337 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
726 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,104 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,099 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
942 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
938 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
825 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
836 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

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