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Apple M2 vs Intel Core i5-9300HF

Last updated: 2026-07-01

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 M2

Rank 2 - 44 %

Intel Core i5-9300HF

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2

Rank 2 - 39 %

Intel Core i5-9300HF

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

120 pts

4C / 8T · 4.10 GHz

31 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

555 pts

4C / 8T · 4.10 GHz

149 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,596

4C / 8T · 4.10 GHz

1,288

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

10,062

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

3,867

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

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,874

4C / 8T · 4.10 GHz

1,060

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

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,853

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

3,544

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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M2	Intel Core i5-9300HF
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Apple M2 (8)	Intel Core i 9000H (11)
Architecture	M2	Coffee Lake H Refresh
Technology	5 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket		BGA 1440
Predecessor	Apple M1
Successor	Apple M3

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M2	Intel Core i5-9300HF
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz	4x 2.40 - 4.10 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB
L3-Cache		8.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M2	Intel Core i5-9300HF
GPU name	Apple M2 (10 Core)	no iGPU
GPU frequency	0.45 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	160 / 1280	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB
Technology	5 nm
Release date	Q2/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M2	Intel Core i5-9300HF
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M2	Intel Core i5-9300HF
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s) LPDDR3-2133 (34.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	24 GB	128 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 M2	Intel Core i5-9300HF
TDP	20 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	30 W
TDP down	10 W	35 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M2	Intel Core i5-9300HF
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	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	Q2/2022	Q2/2019
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M2 is 4.4 stars (744 ratings), while Intel Core i5-9300HF has received 3.7 stars (3 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M2
8C / 8T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-9300HF
4C / 8T · 2.40 - 4.10 GHz

★★★★★