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Apple M3 vs Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)

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 M3

Rank 2 - 26 %

Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3

Rank 2 - 15 %

Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

3,125

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

788

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

11,863

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

1,747

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

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

2,150

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

574

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

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,450

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

1,635

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M3 (10 Core)

3,550

Broadcom VideoCore VII

120

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

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M3	Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
Family	Apple M series (38)	Broadcom BCM (3)
CPU group	Apple M3 (6)	Broadcom BCM2712 (1)
Architecture	M3	Cortex-A76
Technology	3 nm	16 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket
Predecessor	Apple M2	Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711)
Successor	Apple M4

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M3	Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Ibiza P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz	4x Cortex-A76 1.00 - 2.40 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Ibiza E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	2.00 MB
L3-Cache		2.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M3	Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
GPU name	Apple M3 (10 Core)	Broadcom VideoCore VII
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.40 GHz	0.80 GHz
CUs / Shader	160 / 1280	8 / 128
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	2	2
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	4 GB
Technology	3 nm	16 nm
Release date	Q4/2023	Q3/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M3	Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Hailo-8L
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS	Expansion: AI-Kit Hailo-8L @ 13 TOPS (2.3 watts)
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M3	Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (17.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	24 GB	8 GB
Memory channels	2	1
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	2.0 x 4
PCIe Bandwidth		2.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M3	Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
TDP	22 W	12 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down	15 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	88 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M3	Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	Windows 11 (ARM), Linux
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q4/2023	Q3/2023
Release price		79 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M3 is 4.6 stars (1638 ratings), while Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) has received 4.3 stars (184 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M3
8C / 8T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★

Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
4C / 4T · 1.00 - 2.40 GHz

★★★★★