Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) vs Intel Core i7 1165G7

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) (97/100)

Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Intel Core i7 1165G7 (39/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Apple

Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)

97/100
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Intel Core i7 1165G7
Intel

Intel Core i7 1165G7

39/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1165G7
Efficiency 98.0 Excellent WINNER 53.0 Below Average
Performance 100.0 Excellent WINNER 53.0 Below Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1165G7
Base Frequency (E) 4.38 GHz —
Base Frequency (P) 4.61 GHz 1.2-2.8 GHz
E-Cores 12 —
E-Threads 12 —
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 96K (per core)
Multiplier 46x 12-28x
P-Cores 6 4
P-Threads 6 8
Total Cores 18 4
Total Threads 18 8
Unlocked Multiplier No No
Bus Bandwidth — 4 GT/s
Bus Frequency — 100 MHz
L2 Cache — 1280K (per core)
L3 Cache — 12MB (shared)
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) — 4.7 GHz

GeekBench v6

GeekBench v6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1165G7
Background blur 100.3 images/sec 27.4 images/sec
Clang compilation 262.5 Klines/sec 39.7 Klines/sec
File compression 2530 MB/sec 423.3 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 738.1 pages/sec 100.5 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 744.9 Mpixels/sec 166.4 Mpixels/sec
Photo processing 250.8 images/sec 42.5 images/sec
Ray tracing 46.5 Mpixels/sec 7.05 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 450.7 pages/sec 199.9 pages/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1165G7
Codename Apple M5 Tiger Lake
Instruction Set ARMv9 x86-64
Integrated GPU Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU
Released March 3, 2026 September 2, 2020
Type Laptop Laptop
Vendor Apple Intel
AMD Equivalent — -AMD Ryzen 7 5700U
Model number — i7-1165G7
Successor — -Intel Core Ultra 7 265U

Memory Support

Memory Support specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1165G7
ECC Support No No
Max. Memory Bandwidth 307 GB/s —
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 16 2
Memory Types - LPDDR5X-9600 - DDR4-3200- LPDDR4x-4267

Package

Package specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1165G7
Fabrication Process 3 nm 10 nm
Peak Temperature 100°C 100°C
Socket Apple M-Socket BGA-1449
Transistors 28 billions —
TDP (PL1) — 12-28 W (configurable)

PassMark

PassMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1165G7
Data compression 697.9 MBytes/sec 101.4 MBytes/sec
Data encryption 40.8 GBytes/sec 5.4 GBytes/sec
Extended instructions 33.3B Matrices/sec 7.2B Matrices/sec
Find prime numbers 486M Primes/sec 45M Primes/sec
Floating point math 186.8 GOps/sec 19.5 GOps/sec
Integer math 132.7 GOps/sec 32.8 GOps/sec
Physics 5687 Frames/sec 692 Frames/sec
Random string sorting 85.6M Strings/sec 12.5M Strings/sec

iGPU

iGPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1165G7
Execution Units 320 96
GPU Boost Clock 1620 MHz 1300 MHz
Integrated Graphics Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU
ROPs 80 24
Shading Units 2560 768
TGP 28 W 15 W
TMUs 160 48
GPU Base Clock — 300 MHz

Cinebench

Cinebench specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1165G7
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) — 911
Cinebench 2026 (Single) — 588

Misc

Misc specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1165G7
Official Site — Intel Core i7 1165G7 official page
PCI Express Lanes — 16
PCI Express Version — 4.0
Technologies — - Compute: AVX-512, BMI1, BMI2, CLMUL, DLBoost, F16C- Performance: Boost 2.0, CFET, EIST, HTT, Speed Shift- Virtualization: EPT, VT-d, VT-x- Security: TXT, XD bit

Performance Per Watt

Performance Per Watt specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1165G7
Blender / Watt — 2.17 PPW
Cinebench 2024 / Watt — 7.5 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt — 194.9 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt — 348.5 PPW

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i7 1165G7
Date — Benchmark
📘 2025-09-29(MA) — Cinebench 2024
📘 2025-12-07(Yusuf Eren Ç) — Cinebench 2024
📘 2026-04-12(Andy) — GeekBench
📘 2026-05-21(Kroducer) — Cinebench 2026

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