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Intel Core i5-6300U vs Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 41 %

Intel Core i5-6300U

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 20 %

Intel Core i5-6300U

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

177 pts

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

470 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

455 pts

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,316 pts

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

46 pts

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

120 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

115 pts

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

555 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

777 pts

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,592 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 2.60 GHz

1,834 pts

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,558 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

967

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,596

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 2.60 GHz

2,021

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

10,062

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

2C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

710

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

1,874

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

2C / 4T · 2.60 GHz

1,364

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

8,853

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 520

365

Apple M2 (8 Core)

2,840

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 2.60 GHz

1,179.4 s

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

277.0 s

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 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 i5-6300U	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 6000U (20)	Apple M2 (8)
Architecture	Skylake U	M2
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	BGA 1356
Predecessor		Apple M1
Successor	Intel Core i5-7300U	Apple M3 (8-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6300U	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x 2.40 - 3.00 GHz	4x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
L2-Cache		20.00 MB
L3-Cache	3.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6300U	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 520	Apple M2 (8 Core)
GPU frequency	0.35 - 0.95 GHz	0.45 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	128 / 1024
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	24 GB
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2015	Q2/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6300U	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6300U	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
Memory	DDR4-2133 (34.1 GB/s) LPDDR3-1866 (29.9 GB/s) DDR3L-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	24 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 i5-6300U	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
TDP	15 W	20 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	25 W	25 W
TDP down	7.5 W	10 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-6300U	Apple M2 (8-GPU)
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	macOS, iPadOS
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	Q2/2022
Release price	281 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

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Intel Core i5-6300U
2C / 4T · 2.40 - 3.00 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M2 (8-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★