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Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU) vs Intel Xeon X3440

Last updated: 2026-05-04

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 Pro (8-CPU)

Rank 2 - 30 %

Intel Xeon X3440

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)

Rank 2 - 24 %

Intel Xeon X3440

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,534 pts

4C / 8T · 2.93 GHz

457 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

9,569 pts

4C / 8T · 2.53 GHz

2,256 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,397

4C / 8T · 2.93 GHz

569

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

10,412

4C / 8T · 2.53 GHz

2,136

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,768

4C / 8T · 2.93 GHz

668

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

9,996

4C / 8T · 2.53 GHz

2,763

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

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 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

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Xeon X3440
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Xeon X (2)
CPU group	Apple M1 (9)	Intel Xeon X (2)
Architecture	M1	Lynnfield
Technology	5 nm	45 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1156
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Xeon X3440
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 2.53 - 2.93 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	2x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	24.00 MB	8.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Xeon X3440
GPU name	Apple M1 Pro (14 Core)	no iGPU
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	224 / 1792	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB
Technology	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Xeon X3440
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Xeon X3440
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s) DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s) DDR3-800 (12.8 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	4.0	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth		8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Xeon X3440
TDP	35 W	95 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)	Intel Xeon X3440
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
Release date	Q3/2021	Q3/2009
Release price		230 $
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 Xeon X3440 has received 4.0 stars (4 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

Intel Xeon X3440
4C / 8T · 2.53 - 2.93 GHz

★★★★★