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Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU) vs Intel Core i3-12100

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 Pro (8-CPU)

Rank 2 - 93 %

Intel Core i3-12100

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)

Rank 2 - 72 %

Intel Core i3-12100

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

113 pts

4C / 8T · 4.30 GHz

86 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

628 pts

4C / 8T · 4.30 GHz

401 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,534 pts

4C / 8T · 4.30 GHz

1,658 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

9,569 pts

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

8,443 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,397

4C / 8T · 4.30 GHz

2,157

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

10,412

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

7,428

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,768

4C / 8T · 4.30 GHz

1,716

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

9,996

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

6,422

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 Pro (14 Core)

4,580

Intel UHD Graphics 730

538

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

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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Core i3-12100
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i3 (205)
CPU group	Apple M1 (9)	Intel Core i 12000 (34)
Architecture	M1	Alder Lake S
Technology	5 nm	10 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1700
Predecessor		Intel Core i3-11100B
Successor		Intel Core i3-13100

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Core i3-12100
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	6x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz	4x Golden Cove 3.30 - 4.30 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	2x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	24.00 MB	5.00 MB
L3-Cache		12.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Core i3-12100
GPU name	Apple M1 Pro (14 Core)	Intel UHD Graphics 730
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	0.30 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	224 / 1792	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	64 GB
Technology	5 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q3/2021	Q1/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Core i3-12100
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Core i3-12100
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	5.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Core i3-12100
TDP	35 W	60 W
TDP (PL2)		89 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Core i3-12100
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+
Release date	Q3/2021	Q1/2022
Release price		122 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU) is 4.9 stars (254 ratings), while Intel Core i3-12100 has received 4.4 stars (122 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i3-12100
4C / 8T · 3.30 - 4.30 GHz

★★★★★