Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) vs Intel Core i3 8100

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) (97/100)

Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Intel Core i3 8100 (26/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Apple

Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)

97/100
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Intel Core i3 8100
Intel

Intel Core i3 8100

26/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 8100
Efficiency 98.0 Excellent WINNER 42.0 Poor
Performance 100.0 Excellent WINNER 37.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 8100
Base Frequency (E) 4.38 GHz —
Base Frequency (P) 4.61 GHz 3.6 GHz
E-Cores 12 —
E-Threads 12 —
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 64K (per core)
Multiplier 46x 28x
P-Cores 6 4
P-Threads 6 4
Total Cores 18 4
Total Threads 18 4
Unlocked Multiplier No No
Bus Bandwidth — 8 GT/s
Bus Frequency — 100 MHz
L2 Cache — 256K (per core)
L3 Cache — 6MB (shared)

GeekBench v6

GeekBench v6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 8100
Background blur 100.3 images/sec 25.6 images/sec
Clang compilation 262.5 Klines/sec 25.4 Klines/sec
File compression 2530 MB/sec 296.5 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 738.1 pages/sec 75.4 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 744.9 Mpixels/sec 112.9 Mpixels/sec
Photo processing 250.8 images/sec 34 images/sec
Ray tracing 46.5 Mpixels/sec 4.46 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 450.7 pages/sec 125.7 pages/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 8100
Codename Apple M5 Coffee Lake
Instruction Set ARMv9 x86-64
Integrated GPU Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) UHD Graphics 630
Released March 3, 2026 October 5, 2017
Type Laptop Desktop
Vendor Apple Intel
AMD Equivalent — -AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
Model number — i3-8100

Memory Support

Memory Support specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 8100
ECC Support No Yes
Max. Memory Bandwidth 307 GB/s 37.5 GB/s
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 16 2
Memory Types - LPDDR5X-9600 - DDR4-2400

Package

Package specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 8100
Fabrication Process 3 nm 14 nm
Peak Temperature 100°C 100°C
Socket Apple M-Socket LGA-1151
Transistors 28 billions —
TDP (PL1) — 65 W

PassMark

PassMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 8100
Data compression 697.9 MBytes/sec 82.3 MBytes/sec
Data encryption 40.8 GBytes/sec 1.8 GBytes/sec
Extended instructions 33.3B Matrices/sec 7.2B Matrices/sec
Find prime numbers 486M Primes/sec 27M Primes/sec
Floating point math 186.8 GOps/sec 13.8 GOps/sec
Integer math 132.7 GOps/sec 16.1 GOps/sec
Physics 5687 Frames/sec 455 Frames/sec
Random string sorting 85.6M Strings/sec 10.3M Strings/sec

iGPU

iGPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 8100
Execution Units 320 24
GPU Boost Clock 1620 MHz 1100 MHz
Integrated Graphics Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) Intel UHD Graphics 630
ROPs 80 3
Shading Units 2560 192
TGP 28 W 15 W
TMUs 160 24
GPU Base Clock — 350 MHz

Misc

Misc specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 8100
Official Site — Intel Core i3 8100 official page
PCI Express Lanes — 16
PCI Express Version — 3.0
Technologies — - Compute: BMI1, BMI2, CLMUL, F16C- Performance: EIST, TSX- Virtualization: VT-d, VT-x- Security: TXT, XD bit

Performance Per Watt

Performance Per Watt specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 8100
Blender / Watt — 0.74 PPW
Cinebench 2024 / Watt — 3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt — 56.8 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt — 93.2 PPW

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