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Apple M2 vs Intel Xeon W-1290

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 - 74 %

Intel Xeon W-1290

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 88 %

Apple M2

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Xeon W-1290

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,596

10C / 20T · 5.20 GHz

1,763

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

10,062

10C / 20T · 4.00 GHz

9,158

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

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,874

10C / 20T · 5.20 GHz

1,501

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

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,853

10C / 20T · 4.00 GHz

10,985

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M2 (10 Core)

3,550

Intel UHD Graphics P630

461

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

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M2	Intel Xeon W-1290
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Xeon W (97)
CPU group	Apple M2 (8)	Intel Xeon W-1200 (13)
Architecture	M2	Comet Lake W
Technology	5 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Enterprise / Embedded
Socket		LGA 1200
Predecessor	Apple M1
Successor	Apple M3

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M2	Intel Xeon W-1290
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	10 / 20
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz	10x 3.20 - 5.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	20.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M2	Intel Xeon W-1290
GPU name	Apple M2 (10 Core)	Intel UHD Graphics P630
GPU frequency	0.45 - 1.40 GHz	0.35 - 1.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	160 / 1280	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	64 GB
Technology	5 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q2/2022	Q4/2017

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M2	Intel Xeon W-1290
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M2	Intel Xeon W-1290
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	DDR4-2933 (46.9 GB/s)
Max. Memory	24 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	4.0	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth		15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M2	Intel Xeon W-1290
TDP	20 W	80 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	30 W
TDP down	10 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M2	Intel Xeon W-1290
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	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	Q2/2022	Q2/2020
Release price		494 $
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 (745 ratings), while Intel Xeon W-1290 has received 4.7 stars (3 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M2
8C / 8T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Xeon W-1290
10C / 20T · 3.20 - 5.20 GHz

★★★★★