apple m1 vs intel core i5 8250u

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We compared two CPUs Apple M1 (Desktop) 8-cores against Intel Core i5 8250U (Laptop) 4-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved

Key Differences

What are the key differences between Apple M1 and Intel Core i5 8250U
Advantages of Apple M1
  • Newer released 3 years later
  • Has 4 more physical cores
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 14
Advantages of Intel Core i5 8250U
  • 6% higher Turbo Boost frequency (3.4 GHz vs 3.2 GHz)

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
m1 +41%
1528
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
m1 +60%
7810
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
m1 +49%
3769
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
m1 +60%
14821
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
m1 +51%
1748
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
m1 +65%
8274

Specifications

Full technical specification of m1 and core i5 8250u

General

Apple M1 Intel Core i5 8250U
Vendor Apple Intel
Released November 10 2020 August 21 2017
Type Desktop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Kaby Lake Refresh
Socket FC-BGA1356
Integrated GPU Apple M1 8-Core GPU Intel UHD Graphics 620

Performance

Apple M1 Intel Core i5 8250U
Cores 8 4
Threads 8 8
Base Frequency 2.064 GHz 1.6 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 3.2 GHz 3.4 GHz
L1 Cache 2 MB 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 16 MB 256K (per core)
L3 Cache 6 MB (shared)

Power

Apple M1 Intel Core i5 8250U
Fabrication process 5 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) W 15 W
Max. temperature °C 100°C

Memory support

Apple M1 Intel Core i5 8250U
Memory types DDR4-2400, LPDDR3-2133
Memory Size GB 32 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - 37.5 GB/s
ECC Support No No

iGPU

Apple M1 Intel Core i5 8250U
Integrated Graphics Apple M1 8-Core GPU Intel UHD Graphics 620
GPU Base Clock 450 MHz 300 MHz
GPU Boost Clock MHz 1.1 MHz
Shading Units 1024 192
TMUs 64 24
ROPs 32 3
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
m1
2.6 TFLOPS
0.38 TFLOPS

Misc

Apple M1 Intel Core i5 8250U
Official site Apple M1 official page Intel Core i5 8250U official page
PCI Express Version 3
PCI Express Lanes 12

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Intel Core i5 8250U or Apple M1?