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Apple M5 Pro (15-Core) vs Intel Core i9 10900X

CPU CPU
General Parameters
Release Date Mar 2026 Oct 2019
Manufacturer Apple Intel
Type Laptop Desktop
Instruction Set ARMv9 x86-64
Core Architecture Apple M5 Cascade Lake
Integrated Graphics Apple M5 Pro GPU (18-core) N/A
Processor Number i9-10900X
Package
Transistor Count 28 billions
Manufacturing Process 3 nm 14 nm
Socket Apple M-Socket LGA-2066
Peak Operating Temperature 100 °C 94 °C
Power Consumption 165 W
CPU Performance
Performance Cores 5 10
Performance Core Threads 5 20
Performance Core Base Frequency 4.61 GHz 3.7 GHz
Efficiency Cores 10
Efficiency Core Threads 10
Total Core Count 15 10
Total Thread Count 15 20
Multiplier 46 37x
Unlocked Multiplier No Yes
Performance Core Turbo Frequency 4.5 GHz
Bus Frequency 100 MHz
L1 Cache 64 K per core
L2 Cache 1 MB per core
L3 Cache 20 MB shared
Memory Parameters
Memory Types LPDDR5X-9600 DDR4-2933
Max Memory Bandwidth 307 GB/s 93.8 GB/s
ECC Memory Support No No
Max Memory Size 256 GB
Max Memory Channels 4
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics true
Miscellaneous
Official Website Official Link ↗
PCIe Version 3.0
PCIe Lanes 48
Extended Instruction Set SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2, AVX-512
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core 2569 1145
Cinebench R23 Multi Core 22591 14312
Geekbench 6 Single Core 4283 1566
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 23517 9308