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Intel Core i3-6300 vs Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 53 %

Intel Core i3-6300

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 30 %

Intel Core i3-6300

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

1,247

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

2,568

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

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

2C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

940

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

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

2C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

2,229

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 530

442

Apple M1 (7 Core)

2,290

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

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

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 Core i3-6300	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Family	Intel Core i3 (205)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 6000 (24)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Skylake S	M1
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1151
Predecessor
Successor	Intel Core i3-7300

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i3-6300	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x 3.80 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	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i3-6300	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 530	Apple M1 (7 Core)
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.15 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	112 / 896
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	8 GB
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2015	Q4/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-6300	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i3-6300	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Memory	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s) DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i3-6300	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
TDP	51 W	18 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		25 W
TDP down		10 W
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i3-6300	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, 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	Q3/2015	Q4/2020
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 Core i3-6300 is 3.0 stars (5 ratings), while Apple M1 (7-GPU) has received 4.7 stars (71 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i3-6300
2C / 4T · 3.80 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★