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Intel Atom x5-Z8500 vs Apple M1

Last updated: 2026-07-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 10 %

Intel Atom x5-Z8500

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 8 %

Intel Atom x5-Z8500

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.24 GHz

184

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.24 GHz

546

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

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

4C / 4T · 2.24 GHz

224

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

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

4C / 4T · 2.24 GHz

798

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 400

126

Apple M1 (8 Core)

2,610

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

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Atom x5-Z8500	Apple M1
Family	Intel Atom (108)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Atom x3/x5/x7 (9)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Cherry Trail	M1
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	BGA 138
Predecessor
Successor		Apple M2

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Atom x5-Z8500	Apple M1
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 1.44 - 2.24 GHz	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache		16.00 MB
L3-Cache	2.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Atom x5-Z8500	Apple M1
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 400	Apple M1 (8 Core)
GPU frequency	0.20 - 0.60 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	12 / 96	128 / 1024
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	8 GB
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q1/2015	Q4/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Atom x5-Z8500	Apple M1
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Atom x5-Z8500	Apple M1
Memory	DDR3L-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 2	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	1.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Atom x5-Z8500	Apple M1
TDP	2 W	18 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		20 W
TDP down		10 W
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Atom x5-Z8500	Apple M1
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems		macOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q2/2015	Q4/2020
Release price	23 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Atom x5-Z8500 is 4.2 stars (6 ratings), while Apple M1 has received 4.5 stars (782 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Atom x5-Z8500
4C / 4T · 1.44 - 2.24 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★