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Apple M2 (8-GPU) vs Intel Core i3-N305

Last updated: 2026-06-07

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 (8-GPU)

Rank 2 - 52 %

Intel Core i3-N305

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Rank 2 - 56 %

Intel Core i3-N305

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,596

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

1,280

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

10,062

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

4,965

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

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,874

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

1,025

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

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,853

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

4,630

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M2 (8 Core)

2,840

Intel UHD Graphics 13th Gen (32 EU)

640

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

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 (8-GPU)	Intel Core i3-N305
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i3 (205)
CPU group	Apple M2 (8)	Intel Core i N300 (2)
Architecture	M2	Alder Lake N
Technology	5 nm	10 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket		BGA
Predecessor	Apple M1
Successor	Apple M3 (8-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Intel Core i3-N305
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz	8x Gracemont 1.80 - 3.80 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	8.00 MB
L3-Cache		6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Intel Core i3-N305
GPU name	Apple M2 (8 Core)	Intel UHD Graphics 13th Gen (32 EU)
GPU frequency	0.45 - 1.40 GHz	0.30 - 1.25 GHz
CUs / Shader	128 / 1024	32 / 256
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	64 GB
Technology	5 nm	10 nm
Release date	Q2/2022	Q1/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Intel Core i3-N305
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Intel Core i3-N305
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	LPDDR5-4800 (38.4 GB/s) DDR5-4800 (38.4 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	24 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	1
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	3.0 x 9
PCIe Bandwidth		8.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Intel Core i3-N305
TDP	20 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	25 W
TDP down	10 W	9 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Intel Core i3-N305
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, AVX, AVX2
Release date	Q2/2022	Q1/2023
Release price		309 $
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 (8-GPU) is 4.6 stars (108 ratings), while Intel Core i3-N305 has received 4.3 stars (194 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M2 (8-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i3-N305
8C / 8T · 1.80 - 3.80 GHz

★★★★★