Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) vs Intel Core 3 N355

[ 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 3 N355 (33/100), 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 3 N355
Intel

Intel Core 3 N355

33/100
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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 3 N355
Efficiency 98.0 Excellent WINNER 60.0 Average
Performance 100.0 Excellent WINNER 40.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core 3 N355
Base Frequency (E) 4.38 GHz 0.1 GHz
Base Frequency (P) 4.61 GHz —
E-Cores 12 8
E-Threads 12 8
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 96K (per core)
Multiplier 46x 39x
P-Cores 6 —
P-Threads 6 —
Total Cores 18 8
Total Threads 18 8
Unlocked Multiplier No No
Bus Frequency — 100 MHz
L2 Cache — 2MB (shared)
L3 Cache — 6MB (shared)
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) — 3.9 GHz

GeekBench v6

GeekBench v6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core 3 N355
Background blur 100.3 images/sec 24.2 images/sec
Clang compilation 262.5 Klines/sec 36.5 Klines/sec
File compression 2530 MB/sec 461.2 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 738.1 pages/sec 120.5 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 744.9 Mpixels/sec 154.8 Mpixels/sec
Photo processing 250.8 images/sec 41.5 images/sec
Ray tracing 46.5 Mpixels/sec 7.33 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 450.7 pages/sec 157.4 pages/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core 3 N355
Codename Apple M5 —
Instruction Set ARMv9 x86-64
Integrated GPU Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) UHD Graphics (32EU)
Released March 3, 2026 January 3, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Vendor Apple Intel
Model number — 3-N355

Memory Support

Memory Support specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core 3 N355
ECC Support No No
Max. Memory Bandwidth 307 GB/s —
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 16 GB
Memory Channels 16 1
Memory Types - LPDDR5X-9600 - DDR5-4800- DDR4-3200- LPDDR5-4800

Package

Package specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core 3 N355
Fabrication Process 3 nm 10 nm
Peak Temperature 100°C 105°C
Socket Apple M-Socket BGA-1264
Transistors 28 billions —
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) — 15 W
TDP (PL1) — 9 W

PassMark

PassMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core 3 N355
Data compression 697.9 MBytes/sec 118.2 MBytes/sec
Data encryption 40.8 GBytes/sec 8.1 GBytes/sec
Extended instructions 33.3B Matrices/sec 6B Matrices/sec
Find prime numbers 486M Primes/sec 27M Primes/sec
Floating point math 186.8 GOps/sec 22.7 GOps/sec
Integer math 132.7 GOps/sec 33.9 GOps/sec
Physics 5687 Frames/sec 621 Frames/sec
Random string sorting 85.6M Strings/sec 14.7M Strings/sec

iGPU

iGPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core 3 N355
Execution Units 320 32
GPU Boost Clock 1620 MHz 1350 MHz
Integrated Graphics Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) Intel UHD Graphics (32EU)
ROPs 80 8
Shading Units 2560 256
TGP 28 W 15 W
TMUs 160 16
GPU Base Clock — 300 MHz

Misc

Misc specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core 3 N355
Official Site — Intel Core 3 N355 official page
PCI Express Lanes — 9
PCI Express Version — 3.0
Technologies — - Compute: AVX-VNNI, CLMUL, SHA- Performance: EIST, TBT 2.0- Virtualization: VT-d, VT-x- Security: RDRAND, SGX, TXT

Performance Per Watt

Performance Per Watt specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core 3 N355
Cinebench 2024 / Watt — 37.1 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt — 571.2 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt — 1132 PPW

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