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Apple M4 vs Intel Core i5-4278U

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 - 27 %

Intel Core i5-4278U

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4

Rank 2 - 14 %

Intel Core i5-4278U

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

2,125 pts

2C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

647 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

11,575 pts

2C / 4T · 2.60 GHz

1,688 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

3,767

2C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

889

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

13,295

2C / 4T · 2.60 GHz

1,869

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

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

2,491

2C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

684

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M4 (10 Core)

4,260

Intel Iris Graphics 5100

704

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

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i5-4278U
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Apple M4 (7)	Intel Core i 4000U (26)
Architecture	M4	Haswell U
Technology	3 nm	22 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket		BGA 1168
Predecessor	Apple M3
Successor	Apple M5

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i5-4278U
CPU Cores / Threads	9 / 9	2 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	3x Donan P-Core 0.91 - 4.46 GHz	2x 2.60 - 3.10 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	6x Donan E-Core 0.90 - 2.85 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB
L3-Cache		3.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i5-4278U
GPU name	Apple M4 (10 Core)	Intel Iris Graphics 5100
GPU frequency	0.34 - 1.58 GHz	0.20 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader	160 / 1280	40 / 320
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	16 GB
Technology	3 nm	22 nm
Release date	Q2/2024	Q2/2013

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i5-4278U
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i5-4278U
Memory	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s)	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	2.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth		6.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i5-4278U
TDP	20 W	28 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down	15 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i5-4278U
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	Windows 10, 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
Release date	Q2/2024	Q3/2014
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 M4 is 4.2 stars (1074 ratings), while Intel Core i5-4278U has received 4.0 stars (5 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M4
9C / 9T · 0.91 - 4.46 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-4278U
2C / 4T · 2.60 - 3.10 GHz

★★★★★