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Core i5-430M vs Core i7-8700K

Core i5-430M vs Core i7-8700K: game performance, price, value, and specification comparison. Select comparison game parameters.

Key Differences

In short — Core i7-8700K outperforms Core i5-430M on the selected game parameters. We do not have the prices of both CPUs to compare value. The better performing Core i7-8700K is 2828 days newer than Core i5-430M.

Advantages of Core i5-430M

  • Consumes up to 63% less energy than Intel Core i7-8700K - 35 vs 95 Watts

Advantages of Core i7-8700K

  • Performs up to 25% better in Counter-Strike 2 than Core i5-430M - 312 vs 250 FPS
  • Can execute more multi-threaded tasks simultaneously than Intel Core i5-430M - 12 vs 4 threads
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Counter-Strike 2

Counter-Strike 2

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Very High

Intel Core i5-430M Logo
Core i5-430M

Mobile • Jan 7th, 2010


FPS

250

80%

Value, £/FPS

Price, £

Intel Core i7-8700K Logo
Core i7-8700K

Desktop • Oct 5th, 2017


FPS

312

100%

Value, £/FPS

£0.57/FPS

100%

Price, £

£176.66

100%

FPS and Value Winner

Intel Core i7-8700K Retail - (1151/Hex Core/3.70GHz/12MB/Coffee Lake/95W/Graphics)

Buy for £176.66 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 387 minutes ago

My Games

With selected game settings

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

Very High

Intel Core i5-430M Logo
Core i5-430M

Mobile • Jan 7th, 2010

Intel Core i7-8700K Logo
Core i7-8700K

Desktop • Oct 5th, 2017

Geekbench 5 Benchmarks

Intel Core i5-430M Logo
Core i5-430M

Mobile • Jan 7th, 2010


Single-Core

323

20%

Multi-Core

647

10%

Intel Core i7-8700K Logo
Core i7-8700K

Desktop • Oct 5th, 2017


Single-Core

1611

100%

Multi-Core

6515

100%

Intel Core i5-430M Logo

Core i5-430M

vs
Intel Core i7-8700K Logo

Core i7-8700K

Jan 7th, 2010Release Date
Oct 5th, 2017
Core i5CollectionCore i7
ArrandaleCodenameCoffee Lake
Intel Socket G1SocketIntel Socket 1151
Mobile
Segment
Desktop
2Cores
6
4Threads
12
2.3 GHzBase Clock Speed
3.7 GHz
2.5 GHzTurbo Clock Speed
4.7 GHz
35 W
TDP95 W
32 nmProcess Size
14 nm
17.0xMultiplier
37.0x
On certain motherboards (Chipset feature)Integrated GraphicsUHD Graphics 630
NoOverclockable
Yes

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