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Intel Pentium E6500 vs Apple M5
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Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
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Specifications
At a glance
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Intel Pentium E6500 | Apple M5 |
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| Family | Intel Pentium (150) | Apple M series (38) |
| CPU group | Intel Pentium E5000/E6000 (13) | Apple M5 (6) |
| Architecture | Wolfdale (Penryn) | M5 |
| Technology | 45 nm | 3 nm |
| Segment | Desktop | Notebook |
| Socket | LGA 775 | |
| Predecessor | Apple M4 | |
| Successor |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Intel Pentium E6500 | Apple M5 |
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| CPU Cores / Threads | 2 / 2 | 9 / 9 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✗ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | normal | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 2x Penryn 2.93 GHz |
3x P-Core 0.91 - 4.61 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 6x E-Core 0.90 - 3.05 GHz |
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| L2-Cache | 2.00 MB | 28.00 MB |
| L3-Cache | ||
| Overclocking | ✓ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Intel Pentium E6500 | Apple M5 |
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| GPU name | no iGPU | Apple M5 (10 Core) |
| GPU frequency | 0.34 - 1.90 GHz | |
| CUs / Shader | / | 160 / 1280 |
| Raytracing | ✗ | ✓ |
| Max. displays | 3 | |
| Max. GPU Memory | 24 GB | |
| Technology | 3 nm | |
| Release date | Q4/2025 |
NPU AI performance
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Intel Pentium E6500 | Apple M5 |
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| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 16 Neural cores @ 60 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Intel Pentium E6500 | Apple M5 |
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| Memory | DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s) DDR2-800 (12.8 GB/s) | LPDDR5X-9600 (153.6 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | 4.0 | |
| PCIe Bandwidth |
Thermal Management
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Intel Pentium E6500 | Apple M5 |
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| TDP | 65 W | 17 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | ||
| TDP down | 15 W | |
| T. junction max. | 100 °C |
Technical details
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Intel Pentium E6500 | Apple M5 |
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| Chip design | Monolithic | Monolithic |
| AES-NI | ✗ | ✓ |
| Operating systems | Windows 10, Linux | macOS, iPadOS |
| Instruction set | x86-64 (64 bit) | Armv9.2-A (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 | Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME |
| Release date | Q3/2009 | Q4/2025 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents | Technical data sheet |
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Most popular CPUs in both categories
1
Apple M5 Max (18-CPU 32-GPU)
18C / 18T · 4.61 GHz
2
Apple M3 Ultra (28-CPU 60-GPU)
28C / 28T · 4.06 GHz
3
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz
4
Apple M5 Max (18-CPU 40-GPU)
18C / 18T · 4.61 GHz
5
Apple M3 Ultra (32-CPU 80-GPU)
32C / 32T · 4.06 GHz
6
Apple M5 Pro (15-CPU 16-GPU)
15C / 15T · 4.61 GHz
7
Apple M1 Ultra (48-GPU)
20C / 20T · 3.20 GHz
8
Apple M5
9C / 9T · 4.61 GHz
9
Intel Pentium E6500
2C / 2T · 0.00 GHz
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