Apple M3 Max vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

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Apple M3 Max

Intel Pentium Silver N5030

We compared two laptop CPUs: Apple M3 Max with 16 cores 4.05GHz and Intel Pentium Silver N5030 with 4 cores 1.1GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Apple M3 Max 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Higher specification of memory (6400 vs 2400)

Larger memory bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 38.4GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 2.0)

Higher base frequency (4.05GHz vs 1.1GHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)

Intel Pentium Silver N5030 's Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 40W)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

Apple M3 Max +277%

1968

Intel Pentium Silver N5030

522

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

Apple M3 Max +1783%

24163

Intel Pentium Silver N5030

1283

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M3 Max +685%

3227

Intel Pentium Silver N5030

411

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M3 Max +2339%

21173

Intel Pentium Silver N5030

868

Blender

Apple M3 Max +3358%

415

Intel Pentium Silver N5030

12

Passmark CPU Single Core

Apple M3 Max +282%

4793

Intel Pentium Silver N5030

1254

Passmark CPU Multi Core

Apple M3 Max +1441%

40041

Intel Pentium Silver N5030

2597

Apple M3 Max

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Intel Pentium Silver N5030

General Parameters

Oct 2023

Release Date

Nov 2019

Apple

Manufacturer

Intel

Laptop

Type

Laptop

ARMv8

Instruction Set

x86-64

Apple M3

Core Architecture

Gemini Lake Refresh

-

Processor Number

N5030

Apple M-Socket

Socket

BGA-1090

Apple M3 Max GPU (38-core)

Integrated Graphics

UHD Graphics 605

Package

92 billions

Transistor Count

-

3 nm

Manufacturing Process

14 nm

40 W

Power Consumption

6 W

100°C

Peak Operating Temperature

105 °C

CPU Performance

12

Performance Cores

4

12

Performance Core Threads

4

4.05 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

1.1 GHz

4.05 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

-

4

Efficiency Cores

-

4

Efficiency Core Threads

-

2.75 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

-

2.57 GHz

Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency

-

16

Total Core Count

4

16

Total Thread Count

4

40x

Multiplier

-

192 K per core

L1 Cache

-

32 MB shared

L2 Cache

-

L3 Cache

4 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

-

Memory Parameters

LPDDR5-6400

Memory Types

DDR4-2400, LPDDR4-2400

128 GB

Max Memory Size

8 GB

8

Max Memory Channels

2

409.6 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

500 MHz

GPU Base Frequency

-

1600 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

750 MHz

5120

Shader Units

-

320

Texture Units

-

160

Raster Operation Units

-

640

Execution Units

-

16.4 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

-

Miscellaneous

-

Official Website

Intel Pentium Silver N5030

4.0

PCIe Version

2.0

-

PCIe Lanes

6

-

Extended Instruction Set

SSE4.2

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