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Intel Core m3-6Y30 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 - 34 %

Intel Core m3-6Y30

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 16 %

Intel Core m3-6Y30

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 2.20 GHz

769

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 1.80 GHz

1,482

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

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

2C / 4T · 2.20 GHz

604

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

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

2C / 4T · 1.80 GHz

1,262

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 515

326

Apple M1 (7 Core)

2,290

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Cinebench R20 (SC)
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Geekbench 5 (SC)
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Cinebench R15 (SC)
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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 m3-6Y30	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Family	Intel Core M (16)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core M 6 (4)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Skylake Y	M1
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	BGA 1515
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core m3-6Y30	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x 0.90 - 2.20 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 m3-6Y30	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 515	Apple M1 (7 Core)
GPU frequency	0.30 - 0.85 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	112 / 896
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	16 GB	8 GB
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2015	Q4/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core m3-6Y30	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core m3-6Y30	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR3-1866 (29.8 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 10	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	9.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core m3-6Y30	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
TDP	4.5 W	18 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		25 W
TDP down		10 W
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core m3-6Y30	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems		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 m3-6Y30 is 3.8 stars (11 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 m3-6Y30
2C / 4T · 0.90 - 2.20 GHz

★★★★★

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

★★★★★