Apple M3 vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000

VS

Apple M3

Intel Pentium Silver N5000

We compared two laptop CPUs: Apple M3 with 8 cores 4.05GHz and Intel Pentium Silver N5000 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 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Better graphics card performance

Higher specification of memory (6400 vs 2400)

Larger memory bandwidth (102.4GB/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 N5000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 20W)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

Apple M3 +340%

1920

Intel Pentium Silver N5000

436

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

Apple M3 +750%

10448

Intel Pentium Silver N5000

1228

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M3 +713%

3009

Intel Pentium Silver N5000

370

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M3 +983%

11805

Intel Pentium Silver N5000

1090

Blender

Apple M3 +1300%

168

Intel Pentium Silver N5000

12

Passmark CPU Single Core

Apple M3 +330%

4850

Intel Pentium Silver N5000

1127

Passmark CPU Multi Core

Apple M3 +661%

19597

Intel Pentium Silver N5000

2574

Apple M3

VS

Intel Pentium Silver N5000

General Parameters

Oct 2023

Release Date

Dec 2017

Apple

Manufacturer

Intel

Laptop

Type

Laptop

ARMv8

Instruction Set

x86-64

Apple M3

Core Architecture

Gemini Lake

-

Processor Number

N5000

Apple M-Socket

Socket

BGA-1090

Apple M3 GPU

Integrated Graphics

UHD Graphics 605

Package

25 billions

Transistor Count

-

3 nm

Manufacturing Process

14 nm

20 W

Power Consumption

6 W

100°C

Peak Operating Temperature

105 °C

CPU Performance

4

Performance Cores

4

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

-

8

Total Core Count

4

8

Total Thread Count

4

40x

Multiplier

-

192 K per core

L1 Cache

96 K per core

16 MB shared

L2 Cache

4 MB per core

64 MB shared

L3 Cache

-

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

Memory Parameters

LPDDR5-6400

Memory Types

DDR4-2400, LPDDR4-2400

24 GB

Max Memory Size

8 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

2

102.4 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

200 MHz

1600 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

750 MHz

1280

Shader Units

144

80

Texture Units

18

40

Raster Operation Units

3

160

Execution Units

18

-

Power Consumption

5 W

-

Max Resolution

3840x2160 - 30 Hz

4.1 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

0.23 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

-

Official Website

Intel Pentium Silver N5000

4.0

PCIe Version

2.0

-

PCIe Lanes

6

-

Extended Instruction Set

SSE4.2

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