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Intel Core i3-8100 vs Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)

Last updated: 2026-05-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 56 %

Intel Core i3-8100

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 35 %

Intel Core i3-8100

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

912 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,534 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

3,618 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

9,569 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

1,265

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,397

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

3,627

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

10,412

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

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

971

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,768

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

4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

3,134

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

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

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 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 Core i3-8100	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
Family	Intel Core i3 (205)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 8000 (20)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Coffee Lake S	M1
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1151-2
Predecessor	Intel Core i3-7100
Successor	Intel Core i3-9100

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i3-8100	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 3.60 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 i3-8100	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 i3-8100	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 i3-8100	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
Memory	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	32 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 i3-8100	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 i3-8100	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	Q4/2017	Q3/2021
Release price	117 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i3-8100 is 4.1 stars (82 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 i3-8100
4C / 4T · 3.60 GHz

★★★★★

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

★★★★★