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Intel Core i5-6287U 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 - 46 %

Intel Core i5-6287U

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 20 %

Intel Core i5-6287U

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.50 GHz

1,106

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,397

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,214

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

10,412

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

2C / 4T · 3.50 GHz

816

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,768

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

2C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

1,873

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

9,996

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Iris Graphics 550

845

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

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 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

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 i5-6287U	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 6000U (20)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Skylake U	M1
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	BGA 1356
Predecessor	Intel Core i5-5287U
Successor	Intel Core i5-7287U

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6287U	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x 3.10 - 3.50 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	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6287U	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
GPU name	Intel Iris Graphics 550	Apple M1 Pro (14 Core)
GPU frequency	0.30 - 1.10 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	48 / 384	224 / 1792
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	32 GB
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2015	Q3/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6287U	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 i5-6287U	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
Memory	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 12	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	11.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6287U	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
TDP	28 W	35 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6287U	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
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	Q3/2021
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

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Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i5-6287U
2C / 4T · 3.10 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

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

★★★★★