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Intel Core i3-N305 vs Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)

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 - 50 %

Intel Core i3-N305

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 20 %

Intel Core i3-N305

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

1,280

24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz

2,689

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

4,965

24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz

21,450

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

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

1,025

24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz

1,940

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

4,630

24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz

27,860

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel UHD Graphics 13th Gen (32 EU)

640

Apple M2 Ultra (76 Core)

26,980

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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-N305	Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
Family	Intel Core i3 (205)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i N300 (2)	Apple M2 (8)
Architecture	Alder Lake N	M2
Technology	10 nm	5 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	BGA
Predecessor		Apple M1 Ultra (64-GPU)
Successor		Apple M3 Ultra (32-CPU 80-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i3-N305	Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	24 / 24
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	8x Gracemont 1.80 - 3.80 GHz	16x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		8x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	72.00 MB
L3-Cache	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i3-N305	Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 13th Gen (32 EU)	Apple M2 Ultra (76 Core)
GPU frequency	0.30 - 1.25 GHz	0.45 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 256	1216 / 9728
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	8
Max. GPU Memory	64 GB	192 GB
Technology	10 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q1/2023	Q2/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-N305	Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		32 Neural cores @ 31.6 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i3-N305	Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR5-4800 (38.4 GB/s) DDR5-4800 (38.4 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (819.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	192 GB
Memory channels	1	8
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 9	4.0 x 64
PCIe Bandwidth	8.9 GB/s	126.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i3-N305	Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
TDP	15 W	80 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down	9 W
T. junction max.	105 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i3-N305	Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q1/2023	Q2/2023
Release price	309 $
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-N305 is 4.3 stars (198 ratings), while Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) has received 4.9 stars (426 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i3-N305
8C / 8T · 1.80 - 3.80 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C / 24T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★