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Microsoft XBox Series X vs Apple M5
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Benchmarks
Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks
Single-core performance
Multi-core performance
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
Microsoft XBox Series X
100 %
AMD Custom Radeon Graphics (XBox Series X)
Apple M5
42 %
Apple M5 (10 Core)
More benchmarks
Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries
427 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
Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries
666 entries
Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries
2,512 entries
Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries
615 entries
Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries
2,483 entries
FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries
2,219 entries
AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries
25 entries
PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries
2,504 entries
Specifications
At a glance
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Wischen
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Microsoft XBox Series X | Apple M5 |
|---|---|---|
| Family | AMD Ryzen 7 (79) | Apple M series (38) |
| CPU group | AMD Ryzen 4000G (26) | Apple M5 (6) |
| Architecture | Renoir (Zen 2) | M5 |
| Technology | 7 nm | 3 nm |
| Segment | Desktop | Notebook |
| Socket | BGA | |
| Predecessor | Apple M4 | |
| Successor |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
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Wischen
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Microsoft XBox Series X | Apple M5 |
|---|---|---|
| CPU Cores / Threads | 8 / 16 | 9 / 9 |
| Hyperthreading / SMT | ✓ | ✗ |
| Core architecture | normal | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| Core Cluster 1: | 8x Zen 2 3.20 - 3.80 GHz |
3x P-Core 0.91 - 4.61 GHz |
| Core Cluster 2: | 6x E-Core 0.90 - 3.05 GHz |
|
| L2-Cache | 28.00 MB | |
| L3-Cache | 8.00 MB | |
| Overclocking | ✗ | ✗ |
Integrated graphics (iGPU)
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Wischen
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Microsoft XBox Series X | Apple M5 |
|---|---|---|
| GPU name | AMD Custom Radeon Graphics (XBox Series X) | Apple M5 (10 Core) |
| GPU frequency | 1.83 GHz | 0.34 - 1.90 GHz |
| CUs / Shader | 52 / 3328 | 160 / 1280 |
| Raytracing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Max. displays | 1 | 3 |
| Max. GPU Memory | 10 GB | 24 GB |
| Technology | 7 nm | 3 nm |
| Release date | Q3/2020 | Q4/2025 |
NPU AI performance
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Wischen
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Microsoft XBox Series X | Apple M5 |
|---|---|---|
| AI hardware | Apple Neural Engine | |
| AI specifications | 16 Neural cores @ 60 TOPS | |
| NPU + CPU + iGPU |
Memory & PCIe
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Wischen
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Microsoft XBox Series X | Apple M5 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory | GDDR6 (560.0 GB/s) | LPDDR5X-9600 (153.6 GB/s) |
| Max. Memory | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| ECC | No | No |
| PCIe | 4.0 x 12 | 4.0 |
| PCIe Bandwidth | 23.6 GB/s |
Thermal Management
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Wischen
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Microsoft XBox Series X | Apple M5 |
|---|---|---|
| TDP | 105 W | 17 W |
| TDP (PL2) | ||
| TDP up | 200 W | |
| TDP down | 15 W | |
| T. junction max. | 100 °C | 100 °C |
Technical details
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Wischen
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Microsoft XBox Series X | Apple M5 |
|---|---|---|
| Chip design | Monolithic | Monolithic |
| AES-NI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Operating systems | Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux | macOS, iPadOS |
| Instruction set | x86-64 (64 bit) | Armv9.2-A (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions | SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 | Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME |
| Release date | Q3/2020 | Q4/2025 |
| Release price | ||
| Documents |
User Reviews
Your rating
Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Microsoft XBox Series X is 4.3 stars (64 ratings), while Apple M5 has received 4.6 stars (412 ratings).
Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.
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 M1 Ultra (48-GPU)
20C / 20T · 3.20 GHz
7
Apple M5 Pro (15-CPU 16-GPU)
15C / 15T · 4.61 GHz
8
Apple M5
9C / 9T · 4.61 GHz
9
Microsoft XBox Series X
8C / 16T · 3.80 GHz
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