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Apple M2 (8-GPU) vs Intel Core Ultra 5 135H

Last updated: 2026-07-03

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 M2 (8-GPU)

Rank 2 - 91 %

Intel Core Ultra 5 135H

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 76 %

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core Ultra 5 135H

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

120 pts

14C / 18T · 4.60 GHz

100 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

555 pts

14C / 18T · 4.60 GHz

847 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,592 pts

14C / 18T · 4.60 GHz

1,692 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,558 pts

14C / 18T · 4.20 GHz

14,771 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,596

14C / 18T · 4.60 GHz

2,247

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

10,062

14C / 18T · 4.20 GHz

10,239

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

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,874

14C / 18T · 4.60 GHz

1,667

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

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,853

14C / 18T · 4.20 GHz

10,765

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M2 (8 Core)

2,840

Intel Iris Xe 8 Core Graphics 128 EUs (Meteor Lake)

4,361

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 (8-GPU)	Intel Core Ultra 5 135H
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core Ultra 5 (35)
CPU group	Apple M2 (8)	Intel Core Ultra 100H (5)
Architecture	M2	Meteor Lake H
Technology	5 nm	7 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket		BGA 2049
Predecessor	Apple M1
Successor	Apple M3 (8-GPU)	Intel Core Ultra 5 235H

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Intel Core Ultra 5 135H
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	14 / 18
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz	4x Redwood Cove 1.70 - 4.60 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz	8x Crestmont 1.20 - 3.60 GHz
Core Cluster 3:		2x Crestmont 0.70 - 2.50 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	14.00 MB
L3-Cache		18.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Intel Core Ultra 5 135H
GPU name	Apple M2 (8 Core)	Intel Iris Xe 8 Core Graphics 128 EUs (Meteor Lake)
GPU frequency	0.45 - 1.40 GHz	0.60 - 2.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	128 / 1024	128 / 1024
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	2	4
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	32 GB
Technology	5 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q2/2022	Q4/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Intel Core Ultra 5 135H
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Intel® AI Boost
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS	Intel AI Boost @ 1.4 GHz (OpenVINO, WindowsML, DirectML, ONNX RT)
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Intel Core Ultra 5 135H
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s) DDR5-5600 (89.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	24 GB	96 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	5.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Intel Core Ultra 5 135H
TDP	20 W	28 W
TDP (PL2)		115 W
TDP up	25 W	65 W
TDP down	10 W	20 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	110 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Intel Core Ultra 5 135H
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	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	Q4/2023
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 (8-GPU) is 4.6 stars (111 ratings), while Intel Core Ultra 5 135H has received 4.6 stars (28 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

Intel Core Ultra 5 135H
14C / 18T · 1.70 - 4.60 GHz

★★★★★