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Intel Atom N2600 vs Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank ?

Intel Atom N2600

Rank ?

Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 1 %

Intel Atom N2600

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel GMA 3600

Apple M4 Pro (16 Core)

6,410

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

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Atom N2600	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
Family	Intel Atom (108)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Atom N2000 (3)	Apple M4 (7)
Architecture	Cedarview	M4
Technology	32 nm	3 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	BGA 559
Predecessor		Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU)
Successor		Apple M5 Pro (15-CPU 16-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Atom N2600	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 4	12 / 12
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x 1.60 GHz	8x Donan P-Core 1.26 - 4.51 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Donan E-Core 1.02 - 2.59 GHz
L2-Cache		36.00 MB
L3-Cache	1.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Atom N2600	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
GPU name	Intel GMA 3600	Apple M4 Pro (16 Core)
GPU frequency	0.40 GHz	0.39 - 1.58 GHz
CUs / Shader	4 / 32	256 / 2048
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	1 GB	32 GB
Technology	65 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q4/2008	Q4/2024

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Atom N2600	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Atom N2600	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
Memory	DDR3-1066 (8.6 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-8533 (273.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory		64 GB
Memory channels	1	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe		5.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Atom N2600	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
TDP	3.5 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Atom N2600	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE3	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME
Release date	Q4/2011	Q4/2024
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Atom N2600 is 2.0 stars (6 ratings), while Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU) has received 4.8 stars (370 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Atom N2600
2C / 4T · 1.60 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)
12C / 12T · 1.26 - 4.51 GHz

★★★★★