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Apple M4 vs Intel Core i5-12500T

Last updated: 2026-07-05

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 M4

Rank 2 - 62 %

Intel Core i5-12500T

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4

Rank 2 - 66 %

Intel Core i5-12500T

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

175 pts

6C / 12T · 4.40 GHz

101 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

860 pts

6C / 12T · 4.40 GHz

458 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

3,767

6C / 12T · 4.40 GHz

2,330

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

13,295

6C / 12T · 3.20 GHz

8,911

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

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

2,491

6C / 12T · 4.40 GHz

1,674

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M4 (10 Core)

4,260

Intel UHD Graphics 770

742

More benchmarks

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

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 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 M4	Intel Core i5-12500T
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Apple M4 (7)	Intel Core i 12000 (34)
Architecture	M4	Alder Lake S
Technology	3 nm	10 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1700
Predecessor	Apple M3	Intel Core i5-11500T
Successor	Apple M5	Intel Core i5-13500T

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i5-12500T
CPU Cores / Threads	9 / 9	6 / 12
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	3x Donan P-Core 0.91 - 4.46 GHz	6x Golden Cove 2.00 - 4.40 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	6x Donan E-Core 0.90 - 2.85 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	7.50 MB
L3-Cache		18.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i5-12500T
GPU name	Apple M4 (10 Core)	Intel UHD Graphics 770
GPU frequency	0.34 - 1.58 GHz	0.30 - 1.45 GHz
CUs / Shader	160 / 1280	32 / 256
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	64 GB
Technology	3 nm	10 nm
Release date	Q2/2024	Q4/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i5-12500T
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i5-12500T
Memory	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s)	DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	4.0	5.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i5-12500T
TDP	20 W	35 W
TDP (PL2)		74 W
TDP up
TDP down	15 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i5-12500T
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+
Release date	Q2/2024	Q1/2022
Release price		202 $
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 M4 is 4.2 stars (1073 ratings), while Intel Core i5-12500T has received 4.5 stars (23 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M4
9C / 9T · 0.91 - 4.46 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-12500T
6C / 12T · 2.00 - 4.40 GHz

★★★★★