Intel
Intel Core i5-4590
The Haswell Refresh office quad: four cores at 3.3-3.7 GHz with HD 4600 graphics, shipped by the million in Dell/HP/Lenovo small-form-factor desktops. Nobody buys one new — it is what you find already socketed in a $60 used business PC.
Pros
- Four physical cores and AVX2 support, a real instruction-set jump over the Ivy Bridge i5s
- HD Graphics 4600 is the strongest iGPU in this family and a capable Quick Sync transcoder for a home media server
- Supports VT-d, so it works as a small virtualisation or NAS host
- PCIe 3.0 x16 from the CPU for a modern graphics card
- Enormous used supply in ex-corporate machines, usually with the stock cooler still fitted
Cons
- Four threads only — no Hyper-Threading, which shows badly in modern game engines
- Locked multiplier, and most of the boards it ships in are H81/B85 with no tuning at all
- 84 W for performance a modern 15 W laptop chip beats outright
- DDR3-1600 and a 32 GB memory ceiling
Below average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Intel Core i5-4590
General
- Announced
- 2014
- Socket
- LGA1150
- Process
- 22 nm
- Base TDP
- 84 W
- Unlocked multiplier
- No
- Cooler included
- Yes
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 4
- Performance cores
- 4
- Efficiency cores
- 0
- Threads
- 4
- Base clock
- 3.3 GHz
- Boost clock
- 3.7 GHz
- L2 cache
- 1 MB
- L3 cache
- 6 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- Intel HD Graphics 4600
- iGPU clock
- 1,150 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- DDR3-1600
- Max memory
- 32 GB
- Memory channels
- 2
Platform
- PCIe version
- 3
- CPU PCIe lanes
- 16
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 1,100
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 2,900
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 920
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 3,500
- PassMark
- 5,600
Quick answers
Is the Intel Core i5-4590 good in 2026?
The Intel Core i5-4590 earns an Inno Score of 22.4/100 (“Below average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. The Haswell Refresh office quad: four cores at 3.3-3.7 GHz with HD 4600 graphics, shipped by the million in Dell/HP/Lenovo small-form-factor desktops. Nobody buys one new — it is what you find already socketed in a $60 used business PC.
What are the key specs of the Intel Core i5-4590?
Cores: 4 · Threads: 4 · Boost clock: 3.7 GHz · Socket: LGA1150
What are the closest alternatives to the Intel Core i5-4590?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Intel Core i5-4670K, Intel Core i5-3470, Intel Core i5-6500 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.