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Intel Core i3-10100 vs Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)

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 2 - 64 %

Intel Core i3-10100

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 49 %

Intel Core i3-10100

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.30 GHz

64 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

113 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.30 GHz

295 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

628 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.30 GHz

1,141 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,534 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.10 GHz

5,612 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

9,569 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.30 GHz

1,446

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,397

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.10 GHz

4,769

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

10,412

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

4C / 8T · 4.30 GHz

1,135

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,768

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

4C / 8T · 4.10 GHz

4,365

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

9,996

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel UHD Graphics 630

422

Apple M1 Pro (14 Core)

4,580

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.10 GHz

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

181

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

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-10100	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
Family	Intel Core i3 (205)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 10000 (43)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Comet Lake S	M1
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1200
Predecessor	Intel Core i3-9100
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i3-10100	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 8	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 3.60 - 4.30 GHz	6x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		2x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache		24.00 MB
L3-Cache	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i3-10100	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 630	Apple M1 Pro (14 Core)
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.10 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	224 / 1792
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	64 GB	32 GB
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q4/2017	Q3/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-10100	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i3-10100	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
Memory	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i3-10100	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
TDP	65 W	35 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i3-10100	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	macOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q2/2020	Q3/2021
Release price	134 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i3-10100 is 4.0 stars (77 ratings), while Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU) has received 4.9 stars (254 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i3-10100
4C / 8T · 3.60 - 4.30 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★