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Intel Pentium N3540 vs Apple M1

Last updated: 2026-07-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 12 %

Intel Pentium N3540

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 9 %

Intel Pentium N3540

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.66 GHz

203

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.66 GHz

647

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

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

4C / 4T · 2.66 GHz

261

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

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

4C / 4T · 2.66 GHz

854

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)

Apple M1 (8 Core)

2,610

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

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 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

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Pentium N3540	Apple M1
Family	Intel Pentium (150)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Pentium J2000/N3500 (6)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Bay Trail	M1
Technology	22 nm	5 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	BGA 1170
Predecessor
Successor		Apple M2

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Pentium N3540	Apple M1
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 2.16 - 2.66 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	2.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Pentium N3540	Apple M1
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)	Apple M1 (8 Core)
GPU frequency	0.31 - 0.90 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	4 / 32	128 / 1024
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	2
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	8 GB
Technology	22 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2013	Q4/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Pentium N3540	Apple M1
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Pentium N3540	Apple M1
Memory	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 4	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	2.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Pentium N3540	Apple M1
TDP	7.5 W	18 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		20 W
TDP down	4.5 W	10 W
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Pentium N3540	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	Q3/2014	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 Pentium N3540 is 3.8 stars (16 ratings), while Apple M1 has received 4.5 stars (782 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Pentium N3540
4C / 4T · 2.16 - 2.66 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★