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Intel Pentium 2020M vs Apple M1
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance
Intel Pentium 2020M
30 %
2C / 2T · 2.40 GHz
Apple M1
100 %
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Intel Pentium 2020M
11 %
2C / 2T · 2.40 GHz
Apple M1
100 %
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance
Intel Pentium 2020M
17 %
2C / 2T · 2.40 GHz
Apple M1
100 %
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
2C / 2T · 2.40 GHz
Apple M1
100 %
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance
Intel Pentium 2020M
27 %
2C / 2T · 2.40 GHz
Apple M1
100 %
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
Intel Pentium 2020M
12 %
2C / 2T · 2.40 GHz
Apple M1
100 %
8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1)
Apple M1
100 %
Apple M1 (8 Core)
More benchmarks
Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries
218 entries
Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries
219 entries
Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries
427 entries
Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries
422 entries
Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries
690 entries
Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries
665 entries
Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries
1,989 entries
Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries
1,927 entries
Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries
2,512 entries
Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries
2,483 entries
FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries
2,219 entries
Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries
213 entries
PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries
2,504 entries
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries
190 entries
CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries
751 entries
V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries
251 entries
CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries
140 entries
AI performance (NPU)
218 entries
218 entries
Specifications
At a glance
|
Wischen
|
Intel Pentium 2020M | Apple M1 |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Intel Pentium (150) | Apple M series (38) |
| CPU group | Intel Pentium 2000 (5) | Apple M1 (9) |
| Architecture | Ivy Bridge U | M1 |
| Technology | 22 nm | 5 nm |
| Segment | Notebook | Notebook |
| Socket | PGA 988 | |
| Predecessor | ||
| Successor | Apple M2 |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
|
Wischen
|
Intel Pentium 2020M | Apple M1 |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 2 / 2 | 8 / 8 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | normal | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 2x 2.40 GHz |
4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz |
|
| L2-Cache | 0.51 MB | 16.00 MB |
| L3-Cache | 2.00 MB | |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
|
Wischen
|
Intel Pentium 2020M | Apple M1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1) | Apple M1 (8 Core) |
| GPU frequency | 0.65 - 1.10 GHz | 0.39 - 1.30 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 6 / 48 | 128 / 1024 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| Max. displays | 3 | 2 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 2 GB | 8 GB |
| Technology | 22 nm | 5 nm |
| Release date | Q4/2012 | Q4/2020 |
NPU AI performance
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium 2020M | Apple M1 |
|---|---|---|
| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
|
Wischen
|
Intel Pentium 2020M | Apple M1 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | DDR3L-1600 (25.6 GB/s) DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s) DDR3L-1333 (21.3 GB/s) DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s) | LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 32 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | 2.0 x 16 | 4.0 |
| PCIe Bandwidth | 8.0 GB/s |
Thermal Management
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium 2020M | Apple M1 |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 35 W | 18 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | 20 W | |
| TDP down | 10 W | |
| T. junction max. | 90 °C |
Technical details
|
Wischen
|
Intel Pentium 2020M | Apple M1 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation |
| Release date | Q3/2012 | Q4/2020 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents | Technical data sheet |
User Reviews
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