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Intel Pentium E5300 vs Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance
Intel Pentium E5300
19 %
2C / 2T · 2.60 GHz
10C / 10T · 3.50 GHz
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance
2C / 2T · 2.60 GHz
10C / 10T · 3.50 GHz
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2,512 entries
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751 entries
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140 entries
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AI performance (NPU)
218 entries
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Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium E5300 | Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Intel Pentium (150) | Apple M series (38) |
| CPU group | Intel Pentium E5000/E6000 (13) | Apple M2 (8) |
| Architecture | Wolfdale (Penryn) | M2 |
| Technology | 45 nm | 5 nm |
| Segment | Desktop | Notebook |
| Socket | LGA 775 | |
| Predecessor | Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU) | |
| Successor | Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU) |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium E5300 | Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 2 / 2 | 10 / 10 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | normal | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 2x Penryn 2.60 GHz |
6x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz |
|
| L2-Cache | 2.00 MB | 28.00 MB |
| L3-Cache | ||
| Overclocking | ✓ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium E5300 | Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | no iGPU | Apple M2 Pro (16 Core) |
| GPU frequency | 0.45 - 1.40 GHz | |
| CUs / Shader | / | 256 / 2048 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✗ |
| Max. displays | 3 | |
| Max. GPU Memory | 32 GB | |
| Technology | 5 nm | |
| Release date | Q1/2023 |
NPU AI performance
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium E5300 | Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium E5300 | Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s) DDR2-800 (12.8 GB/s) | LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 16 GB | 32 GB |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | 4.0 | |
| PCIe Bandwidth |
Thermal Management
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium E5300 | Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 65 W | 30 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | ||
| T. junction max. | 100 °C |
Technical details
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Wischen
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Intel Pentium E5300 | Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-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 | MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 | Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation |
| Release date | Q4/2008 | Q1/2023 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents | Technical data sheet | Technical data sheet |
User Reviews
Your rating
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