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Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU) vs Intel Core i5-8265U

Last updated: 2026-06-03

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 - 48 %

Intel Core i5-8265U

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)

Rank 2 - 26 %

Intel Core i5-8265U

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,534 pts

4C / 8T · 3.90 GHz

606 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

9,569 pts

4C / 8T · 2.30 GHz

1,674 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,397

4C / 8T · 3.90 GHz

1,286

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

10,412

4C / 8T · 2.30 GHz

3,267

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,768

4C / 8T · 3.90 GHz

909

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

9,996

4C / 8T · 2.30 GHz

2,806

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 Pro (14 Core)

4,580

Intel UHD Graphics 620

422

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

181

4C / 8T · 2.30 GHz

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

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 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Core i5-8265U
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Apple M1 (9)	Intel Core i 8000U (WL) (8)
Architecture	M1	Whiskey Lake U
Technology	5 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket		BGA 1356
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Core i5-8265U
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 1.60 - 3.90 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	2x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	24.00 MB
L3-Cache		6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Core i5-8265U
GPU name	Apple M1 Pro (14 Core)	Intel UHD Graphics 620
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	0.30 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader	224 / 1792	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	16 GB
Technology	5 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q3/2021	Q3/2016

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Core i5-8265U
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 i5-8265U
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth		15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Core i5-8265U
TDP	35 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Core i5-8265U
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
Release date	Q3/2021	Q3/2018
Release price		385 $
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 i5-8265U has received 3.8 stars (86 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 i5-8265U
4C / 8T · 1.60 - 3.90 GHz

★★★★★