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Apple M1 vs Intel Core i5-5300U

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 - 36 %

Intel Core i5-5300U

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Rank 2 - 19 %

Intel Core i5-5300U

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

419 pts

2C / 4T · 2.90 GHz

176 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,722 pts

2C / 4T · 2.90 GHz

424 pts

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

112 pts

2C / 4T · 2.90 GHz

39 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

509 pts

2C / 4T · 2.90 GHz

88 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,503 pts

2C / 4T · 2.90 GHz

466 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,759 pts

2C / 4T · 2.70 GHz

1,438 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

2C / 4T · 2.90 GHz

921

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

2C / 4T · 2.70 GHz

1,834

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

2C / 4T · 2.90 GHz

688

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

2C / 4T · 2.70 GHz

1,493

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 (8 Core)

2,610

Intel HD Graphics 5500

346

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

314.0 s

2C / 4T · 2.70 GHz

1,716.7 s

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

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 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

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

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-5300U
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Apple M1 (9)	Intel Core i 5000U (16)
Architecture	M1	Broadwell U
Technology	5 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket		BGA 1168
Predecessor		Intel Core i5-4300U
Successor	Apple M2

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-5300U
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	2 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz	2x 2.30 - 2.90 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB
L3-Cache		3.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-5300U
GPU name	Apple M1 (8 Core)	Intel HD Graphics 5500
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	0.30 - 0.90 GHz
CUs / Shader	128 / 1024	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	16 GB
Technology	5 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q4/2020	Q1/2015

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-5300U
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-5300U
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	2.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth		6.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-5300U
TDP	18 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	20 W
TDP down	10 W	7.5 W
T. junction max.		105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-5300U
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, AVX2
Release date	Q4/2020	Q1/2015
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 (774 ratings), while Intel Core i5-5300U has received 3.9 stars (23 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M1
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-5300U
2C / 4T · 2.30 - 2.90 GHz

★★★★★