Apple M5 Max (32-core GPU) vs Intel Celeron N4500

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M5 Max (32-core GPU) (97/100)

Apple M5 Max (32-core GPU) leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Intel Celeron N4500 (16/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Apple M5 Max (32-core GPU):
  • + Higher Efficiency score (93 vs 54)
  • + Higher Performance score (100 vs 17)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M5 Max (32-core GPU) Intel Celeron N4500
Efficiency 93.0 Excellent WINNER 54.0 Below Average
Performance 100.0 Excellent WINNER 17.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Max (32-core GPU) Intel Celeron N4500
Base Frequency (E) 4.38 GHz —
Base Frequency (P) 4.61 GHz 1.1 GHz
E-Cores 12 —
E-Threads 12 —
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 32K (per core)
Multiplier 46x 11x
P-Cores 6 2
P-Threads 6 2
Total Cores 18 2
Total Threads 18 2
Unlocked Multiplier No No
Bus Frequency — 100 MHz
L2 Cache — 384K (per core)
L3 Cache — 4MB (shared)

GeekBench v6

GeekBench v6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Max (32-core GPU) Intel Celeron N4500
Background blur 99.8 images/sec 2.49 images/sec
Clang compilation 264.8 Klines/sec 7.93 Klines/sec
File compression 2730 MB/sec 94.3 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 769.2 pages/sec 31.7 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 762.6 Mpixels/sec 36.8 Mpixels/sec
Photo processing 260.4 images/sec 4.54 images/sec
Ray tracing 48.4 Mpixels/sec 1.13 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 438.2 pages/sec 85.1 pages/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Max (32-core GPU) Intel Celeron N4500
Codename Apple M5 Jasper Lake
Instruction Set ARMv9 x86-64
Integrated GPU Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core) UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake 16 EU)
Released March 3, 2026 January 11, 2021
Type Laptop Laptop
Vendor Apple Intel
Model number — N4500

Memory Support

Memory Support specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Max (32-core GPU) Intel Celeron N4500
ECC Support No No
Max. Memory Bandwidth 460.8 GB/s —
Max. Memory Size 128 GB 32 GB
Memory Channels 24 2
Memory Types - LPDDR5X-9600 - DDR4-2933

Package

Package specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Max (32-core GPU) Intel Celeron N4500
Fabrication Process 3 nm 10 nm
Peak Temperature 100°C 105°C
Socket Apple M-Socket BGA-1338
TDP (PL1) 64 W 6 W
Transistors 28 billions —

PassMark

PassMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Max (32-core GPU) Intel Celeron N4500
Data compression 689.6 MBytes/sec 22.5 MBytes/sec
Data encryption 40.8 GBytes/sec 1.3 GBytes/sec
Extended instructions 33.4B Matrices/sec 0.6B Matrices/sec
Find prime numbers 553M Primes/sec 9M Primes/sec
Floating point math 186.1 GOps/sec 3.5 GOps/sec
Integer math 132.6 GOps/sec 5.5 GOps/sec
Physics 6847 Frames/sec 153 Frames/sec
Random string sorting 84.9M Strings/sec 3.1M Strings/sec

Performance Per Watt

Performance Per Watt specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Max (32-core GPU) Intel Celeron N4500
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 32.3 PPW 6.5 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 454.2 PPW 133.5 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 897.9 PPW 293.3 PPW
Blender / Watt — 1.11 PPW

iGPU

iGPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Max (32-core GPU) Intel Celeron N4500
Execution Units 512 16
GPU Boost Clock 1620 MHz 750 MHz
Integrated Graphics Apple M5 Max GPU (32-core) Intel UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake 16 EU)
ROPs 128 4
Shading Units 4096 128
TMUs 256 8
GPU Base Clock — 350 MHz
TGP — 6-15 W

Misc

Misc specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Max (32-core GPU) Intel Celeron N4500
Official Site — Intel Celeron N4500 official page
PCI Express Lanes — 8
PCI Express Version — 3.0

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