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Intel Core i5 12500 Vs Apple M1 Pro

We compared two laptops/desktop CPUs: Intel Core i5 12500 Vs Apple M1 Pro.

In this table-based comparison, you’ll find out which CPUs are better performance in Benchmarks, Antutu, Games, and other useful information.

 
  Intel Core i5 12500 Apple M1 Pro
Price Coming Soon Coming Soon
Our Rating 9.0 9.8
Brand Intel Apple
Category CPUs CPUs

General Information

Vendor Intel Apple
Released January 2022 October 2021
Type Desktop Laptop
Model Core i5 12500 M1 Pro
Instruction set x86-64-bit ARMv8
Codename Alder Lake-S Firestorm
Socket FCLGA-1700 Apple M-Socket
Integrated GPU UHD Graphics 770 Apple M1 Pro GPU (16-core)
Supported displays 4 3
Supports 64-bit Yes Yes

CPU Performance

Cores 6 10
Threads 12 10
Base Frequency 3.0 GHz 2.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.6 GHz 3.2 GHz
Bus Frequency 100 MHz -
Clock Multiplier 30x -
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 192K (per core)
L2 Cache 1280K (per core) 24MB (shared)
L3 Cache 18MB (shared) -
L2 core 1.25MB/core -
L3 core 3MB/core -
Unlocked Multiplier No No

iGPU

Integrated Graphics UHD Graphics 770 Apple M1 Pro GPU (16-core)
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 450 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1450 MHz 1296 MHz
Shading Units 256 2048
TMUs 16 128
ROPs 8 64
Execution Units 32 256
TGP 15W 30W
Max. Resolution 4096 x 2160 @ 60Hz
7680 x 4320 @ 60Hz
5120 x 3200 @ 120Hz
6016 x 3384 @ 60Hz
iGPU FLOPS 0.78 TFLOPS 5.2 TFLOPS

Power

Transistors - 33.7 Billion
Fabrication process 7nm 5nm
TDP 65W 30W
Max. temperature 100°C -

Memory Support

Memory Types DDR5
DDR4
LPDDR5
Memory Size 128GB 32GB
RAM speed 4800 MT/s
3200 MT/s
6400 MHz
Max. Memory Channels 2 4
Max. Memory Bandwidth 76.8 GB/s 4204.8 GB/s
ECC Support Yes No
DDR memory version 5 5
Bus Transfer Rate - -
Bus Speed - -

Miscellaneous

Official Site Intel Core i5 12500 Official website Apple M1 Pro Official website
PCI Express Version 5.0 -
PCI Express Lanes 20 -

Benchmarks

Cinebench R23 Single-Core 1795 1536
Cinebench R23 Multi-Core 12871 12189
Passmark CPU Single-Core 1733 3854
Passmark CPU Multi-Core 8696 23813
Geekbench Single-Core 3735 1750
Geekbench Multi-Core 20167 12529

Key Features

SSE version 4.2 -
Front-end width - 8
MULTITHREADING
AES
AVX
F16C
MMX
TRUST ZONE
NX BIT
FMA4
FMA3
  Intel Core i5 12500 Apple M1 Pro