Intel Core i3-530
In gaming terms, an older chip that limits most recent games. It outscores 10% of the 133 processors in our index .
- Index
- 15/100
- Rank
- #120
- Cores / threads
- 2/4
- Top speed
- 2.9 GHz
- Power
- 73 W
Graphics cards that match it
Recent cards the Intel Core i3-530 keeps fully used at 1440p without much processor to spare, by our bottleneck model.
No close match in our index — try a specific pairing in the bottleneck calculator.
Games it handles, by the processor requirement
Against the 191 released games whose publisher names a processor we can place.
- 77 recommended processor or better 40%
- 14 minimum only 7%
- 100 below minimum 52%
Upcoming releases on the Intel Core i3-530
Unreleased games whose publishers have already named a processor.
Recommended spec 0
None
Minimum spec 0
None
Below minimum 16
- Gears of War: E-Day Oct 6, 2026
- Phantom Blade Zero Oct 28, 2026
- Sagas of Lumin Feb 4, 2027
- Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis Feb 12, 2027
- Fable Feb 23, 2027
- HUMANKIND™ 2 2027
- Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance 2027
- Outward 2 2027
- PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant 2027
- Sea of Remnants 2027
- Chrono Odyssey To be announced
- El Paso, Elsewhere 2 To be announced
- Guild Wars 3™ To be announced
- Holstin To be announced
- Lords of the Fallen II Coming soon
- SAW: Genesis To be announced
Where the processor decides the frame rate
Games that lean on the CPU more than the graphics card, and where this chip lands against each.
- Palworld Too slow
- Baldur's Gate 3 Too slow
- HELLDIVERS™ 2 Too slow
- Path of Exile 2 Too slow
- Monster Hunter Wilds Too slow
- World of Warcraft: The War Within Too slow
- PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS Too slow
- VALORANT Minimum
Spec card
- Maker
- Intel
- Released
- 2010
- Cores
- 2
- Threads
- 4
- Base speed
- 2.9 GHz
- Top speed
- 2.9 GHz
- Rated power
- 73 W
- Tier
- F
The processors either side of it
Nearest in our index. Pick one to compare them directly.
Intel Core i3-530: quick answers
Which graphics card suits the Intel Core i3-530?
No card in our index is an even match for it; use the bottleneck calculator to see how far apart a specific pairing is.
Will the Intel Core i3-530 run 2027 games?
Of the 16 upcoming games that name a processor, it meets the recommended one for 0, only the minimum for 0, and falls short of 16.
How many cores does the Intel Core i3-530 have?
2 cores and 4 threads, with a top clock speed of 2.9 GHz.