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Apple M1 vs Intel Core i5-2500

Last updated: 2026-06-06

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 M1

Rank 2 - 38 %

Intel Core i5-2500

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Rank 2 - 29 %

Intel Core i5-2500

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,503 pts

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

697 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,759 pts

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,531 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

633

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

1,845

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

737

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,425

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 (8 Core)

2,610

Intel HD Graphics 2000

106

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

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

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-2500
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Apple M1 (9)	Intel Core i 2000 (28)
Architecture	M1	Sandy Bridge S
Technology	5 nm	32 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1155
Predecessor
Successor	Apple M2

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-2500
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz	4x 3.30 - 3.70 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB
L3-Cache		6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-2500
GPU name	Apple M1 (8 Core)	Intel HD Graphics 2000
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	0.85 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader	128 / 1024	6 / 48
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	2
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	2 GB
Technology	5 nm	32 nm
Release date	Q4/2020	Q1/2011

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-2500
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-2500
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth		8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-2500
TDP	18 W	95 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	20 W
TDP down	10 W
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-2500
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date	Q4/2020	Q1/2011
Release price
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M1 is 4.5 stars (767 ratings), while Intel Core i5-2500 has received 4.4 stars (27 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M1
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-2500
4C / 4T · 3.30 - 3.70 GHz

★★★★★