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Apple M1 (7-GPU) vs Intel Core i5-7Y54

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 M1 (7-GPU)

Rank 2 - 40 %

Intel Core i5-7Y54

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Rank 2 - 20 %

Intel Core i5-7Y54

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

2C / 4T · 3.20 GHz

899

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

2C / 4T · 2.60 GHz

1,682

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

2C / 4T · 3.20 GHz

743

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

2C / 4T · 2.60 GHz

1,583

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 (7 Core)

2,290

Intel HD Graphics 615

365

More benchmarks

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

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 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i5-7Y54
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core M (16)
CPU group	Apple M1 (9)	Intel Core i 7Y (3)
Architecture	M1	Kaby Lake Y
Technology	5 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket		BGA 1515
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i5-7Y54
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 1.20 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB
L3-Cache		4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i5-7Y54
GPU name	Apple M1 (7 Core)	Intel HD Graphics 615
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	0.30 - 0.95 GHz
CUs / Shader	112 / 896	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	16 GB
Technology	5 nm	14nm
Release date	Q4/2020	Q2/2016

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i5-7Y54
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i5-7Y54
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	LPDDR3-1866 (29.9 GB/s) DDR3L-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	3.0 x 10
PCIe Bandwidth		9.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i5-7Y54
TDP	18 W	4.5 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	25 W	7 W
TDP down	10 W	3.5 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i5-7Y54
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	Q4/2016
Release price		281 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M1 (7-GPU) is 4.7 stars (71 ratings), while Intel Core i5-7Y54 has received 3.0 stars (6 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-7Y54
2C / 4T · 1.20 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★