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Apple M2 (8-GPU) vs Intel Processor N100

Last updated: 2026-06-06

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 - 50 %

Intel Processor N100

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Rank 2 - 32 %

Intel Processor N100

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

120 pts

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

59 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

555 pts

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

197 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,592 pts

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

821 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,558 pts

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

2,269 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,596

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

1,220

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

10,062

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

3,129

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

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,874

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

989

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

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,853

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

2,840

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M2 (8 Core)

2,840

Intel UHD Graphics 24 EUs (Alder Lake)

288

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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Intel Processor N100
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Processor N (9)
CPU group	Apple M2 (8)	Intel Processor N50/N100/N200 (5)
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 Processor N100
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz	4x Gracemont 1.80 - 3.40 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	4.00 MB
L3-Cache		6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Intel Processor N100
GPU name	Apple M2 (8 Core)	Intel UHD Graphics 24 EUs (Alder Lake)
GPU frequency	0.45 - 1.40 GHz	0.30 - 0.75 GHz
CUs / Shader	128 / 1024	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	8 GB
Technology	5 nm	10 nm
Release date	Q2/2022	Q1/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Intel Processor N100
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Intel Processor N100
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 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 Processor N100
TDP	20 W	6 W
TDP (PL2)		25 W
TDP up	25 W	10 W
TDP down	10 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Intel Processor N100
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		128 $
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 Processor N100 has received 4.0 stars (813 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

Intel Processor N100
4C / 4T · 1.80 - 3.40 GHz

★★★★★