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Apple A17 Pro vs Intel Core i3-8300

Last updated: 2026-06-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A17 Pro

Rank 2 - 46 %

Intel Core i3-8300

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A17 Pro

Rank 2 - 56 %

Intel Core i3-8300

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.78 GHz

2,952

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

1,296

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.78 GHz

7,235

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

3,868

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.78 GHz

2,140

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

1,040

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.78 GHz

5,868

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

3,425

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A17 Pro (6 GPU Cores)

2,147

Intel UHD Graphics 630

442

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

AnTuTu 9 Benchmark
90 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A17 Pro	Intel Core i3-8300
Family	Apple A series (27)	Intel Core i3 (205)
CPU group	Apple A17 Pro (1)	Intel Core i 8000 (20)
Architecture	Ibiza	Coffee Lake S
Technology	3 nm	14 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1151-2
Predecessor	Apple A16 Bionic	Intel Core i3-7300
Successor	Apple A18 Pro	Intel Core i3-9300

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A17 Pro	Intel Core i3-8300
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	2x Ibiza P-Core 0.70 - 3.78 GHz	4x 3.70 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Ibiza E-Core 0.74 - 2.11 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB
L3-Cache	24.00 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A17 Pro	Intel Core i3-8300
GPU name	Apple A17 Pro (6 GPU Cores)	Intel UHD Graphics 630
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.40 GHz	0.35 - 1.15 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 768	24 / 192
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	6 GB	64 GB
Technology	3 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q3/2023	Q4/2017

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A17 Pro	Intel Core i3-8300
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A17 Pro	Intel Core i3-8300
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (51.2 GB/s)	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe		3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth		15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A17 Pro	Intel Core i3-8300
TDP	11 W	62 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A17 Pro	Intel Core i3-8300
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8.6-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q3/2023	Q4/2017
Release price		125 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A17 Pro is 4.1 stars (459 ratings), while Intel Core i3-8300 has received 4.8 stars (4 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A17 Pro
6C / 6T · 0.70 - 3.78 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i3-8300
4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

★★★★★