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Intel Core i3-10100F vs Apple M5

Last updated: 2026-06-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 34 %

Intel Core i3-10100F

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M5

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 29 %

Intel Core i3-10100F

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M5

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.30 GHz

64 pts

9C / 9T · 4.61 GHz

198 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.30 GHz

1,446

9C / 9T · 4.61 GHz

4,133

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.10 GHz

4,769

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

16,472

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

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 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

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-10100F	Apple M5
Family	Intel Core i3 (205)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 10000 (43)	Apple M5 (6)
Architecture	Comet Lake S	M5
Technology	14 nm	3 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1200
Predecessor	Intel Core i3-9100F	Apple M4
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i3-10100F	Apple M5
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 8	9 / 9
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 3.60 - 4.30 GHz	3x P-Core 0.91 - 4.61 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		6x E-Core 0.90 - 3.05 GHz
L2-Cache		28.00 MB
L3-Cache	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i3-10100F	Apple M5
GPU name	no iGPU	Apple M5 (10 Core)
GPU frequency		0.34 - 1.90 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	160 / 1280
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays		3
Max. GPU Memory		24 GB
Technology		3 nm
Release date		Q4/2025

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-10100F	Apple M5
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 60 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i3-10100F	Apple M5
Memory	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-9600 (153.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	16 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 i3-10100F	Apple M5
TDP	65 W	17 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		15 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i3-10100F	Apple M5
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME
Release date	Q4/2020	Q4/2025
Release price	79 $
Documents

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i3-10100F is 4.6 stars (31 ratings), while Apple M5 has received 4.7 stars (406 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

Apple M5
9C / 9T · 0.91 - 4.61 GHz

★★★★★