Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) vs Intel Core i7 1360P

[ 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 i7 1360P (52/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Apple M5 Pro (18-Core):
  • + Higher Efficiency score (98 vs 59)
  • + Higher Performance score (100 vs 69)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1360P
Efficiency 98.0 Excellent WINNER 59.0 Below Average
Performance 100.0 Excellent WINNER 69.0 Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1360P
Base Frequency (E) 4.38 GHz 1.6 GHz
Base Frequency (P) 4.61 GHz 2.2 GHz
E-Cores 12 8
E-Threads 12 8
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 80K (per core)
Multiplier 46x 22x
P-Cores 6 4
P-Threads 6 8
Total Cores 18 12
Total Threads 18 16
Unlocked Multiplier No No
Bus Frequency — 100 MHz
L2 Cache — 2MB (per core)
L3 Cache — 18MB (shared)
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) — 3.7 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) — 5 GHz

GeekBench v6

GeekBench v6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1360P
Background blur 100.3 images/sec 40 images/sec
Clang compilation 262.5 Klines/sec 64.8 Klines/sec
File compression 2530 MB/sec 1080 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 738.1 pages/sec 264.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 744.9 Mpixels/sec 309.1 Mpixels/sec
Photo processing 250.8 images/sec 103.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 46.5 Mpixels/sec 15.2 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 450.7 pages/sec 211.5 pages/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1360P
Codename Apple M5 Raptor Lake
Instruction Set ARMv9 x86-64
Integrated GPU Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) Iris Xe Graphics (96EU)
Released March 3, 2026 January 3, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Vendor Apple Intel
AMD Equivalent — -AMD Ryzen 7 7730U
Model number — i7-1360P

Memory Support

Memory Support specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1360P
ECC Support No No
Max. Memory Bandwidth 307 GB/s —
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 96 GB
Memory Channels 16 2
Memory Types - LPDDR5X-9600 - DDR5-5200- DDR4-3200- LPDDR5-6400- LPDDR5x-6400- LPDDR4x-4267

Package

Package specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1360P
Fabrication Process 3 nm 10 nm
Peak Temperature 100°C 100°C
Socket Apple M-Socket BGA-1744
Transistors 28 billions —
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) — 64 W
TDP (PL1) — 20-28 W (configurable)

PassMark

PassMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1360P
Data compression 697.9 MBytes/sec 199.3 MBytes/sec
Data encryption 40.8 GBytes/sec 12.2 GBytes/sec
Extended instructions 33.3B Matrices/sec 11.4B Matrices/sec
Find prime numbers 486M Primes/sec 77M Primes/sec
Floating point math 186.8 GOps/sec 45.2 GOps/sec
Integer math 132.7 GOps/sec 66.7 GOps/sec
Physics 5687 Frames/sec 1266 Frames/sec
Random string sorting 85.6M Strings/sec 22.1M Strings/sec

iGPU

iGPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1360P
Execution Units 320 96
GPU Boost Clock 1620 MHz 1500 MHz
Integrated Graphics Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) Intel Iris Xe Graphics (96EU)
ROPs 80 24
Shading Units 2560 768
TGP 28 W 15 W
TMUs 160 48
GPU Base Clock — 300 MHz

Misc

Misc specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1360P
Official Site — Intel Core i7 1360P official page
PCI Express Lanes — 20
PCI Express Version — 4.0
Technologies — - Compute: ABM, ADX, BMI1, BMI2, CLMUL, F16C, SHA- Performance: EIST, TBT 2.0, TBT 3.0, TSX- Virtualization: VT-d, VT-x- Security: RDRAND, TXT, XD bit, vPro

Performance Per Watt

Performance Per Watt specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1360P
Blender / Watt — 4.68 PPW
Cinebench 2024 / Watt — 20 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt — 365.5 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt — 653 PPW

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1360P
Date — Benchmark
📘 2024-11-15(Asuna) — Cinebench 2024
📘 2026-03-15(lee404) — GeekBench
📘 2026-04-22(Željko Perić) — GeekBench

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