Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) vs Intel Core i9 14900KF

[ 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 i9 14900KF (85/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Apple M5 Pro (18-Core):
  • + Higher Efficiency score (98 vs 56)
  • + Higher Performance score (100 vs 88)
[ WINNER ]
Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Apple

Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)

97/100
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Intel Core i9 14900KF
Intel

Intel Core i9 14900KF

85/100
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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 i9 14900KF
Efficiency 98.0 Excellent WINNER 56.0 Below Average
Performance 100.0 Excellent WINNER 88.0 Very Good

Detailed Technical Specifications

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i9 14900KF
Base Frequency (E) 4.38 GHz 2.4 GHz
Base Frequency (P) 4.61 GHz 3.2 GHz
E-Cores 12 16
E-Threads 12 16
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 80K (per core)
Multiplier 46x 32x
P-Cores 6 8
P-Threads 6 16
Total Cores 18 24
Total Threads 18 32
Unlocked Multiplier No Yes
Bus Frequency — 100 MHz
L2 Cache — 2MB (per core)
L3 Cache — 36MB (shared)
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) — 4.4 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) — 6 GHz

GeekBench v6

GeekBench v6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i9 14900KF
Background blur 100.3 images/sec 74.9 images/sec
Clang compilation 262.5 Klines/sec 200.6 Klines/sec
File compression 2530 MB/sec 1590 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 738.1 pages/sec 491.5 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 744.9 Mpixels/sec 554.9 Mpixels/sec
Photo processing 250.8 images/sec 151.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 46.5 Mpixels/sec 44.2 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 450.7 pages/sec 315.7 pages/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i9 14900KF
Codename Apple M5 Raptor Lake Refresh
Instruction Set ARMv9 x86-64
Integrated GPU Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) No
Released March 3, 2026 October 16, 2023
Type Laptop Desktop
Vendor Apple Intel
AMD Equivalent — -AMD Ryzen 9 7900X
Model number — i9-14900KF

Memory Support

Memory Support specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i9 14900KF
ECC Support No Yes
Max. Memory Bandwidth 307 GB/s 89.6 GB/s
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 192 GB
Memory Channels 16 2
Memory Types - LPDDR5X-9600 - DDR5-5600- DDR4-3200

Package

Package specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i9 14900KF
Fabrication Process 3 nm 10 nm
Peak Temperature 100°C 100°C
Socket Apple M-Socket LGA-1700
Transistors 28 billions —
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) — 253 W
TDP (PL1) — 125 W

PassMark

PassMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i9 14900KF
Data compression 697.9 MBytes/sec 780.5 MBytes/sec
Data encryption 40.8 GBytes/sec 46.2 GBytes/sec
Extended instructions 33.3B Matrices/sec 44.5B Matrices/sec
Find prime numbers 486M Primes/sec 228M Primes/sec
Floating point math 186.8 GOps/sec 151.4 GOps/sec
Integer math 132.7 GOps/sec 208.3 GOps/sec
Physics 5687 Frames/sec 3112 Frames/sec
Random string sorting 85.6M Strings/sec 86.4M Strings/sec

iGPU

iGPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i9 14900KF
Execution Units 320 —
GPU Boost Clock 1620 MHz —
Integrated Graphics Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) —
ROPs 80 —
Shading Units 2560 —
TGP 28 W —
TMUs 160 —

Cinebench

Cinebench specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i9 14900KF
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) — 7372
Cinebench 2026 (Single) — 690

Misc

Misc specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i9 14900KF
Official Site — Intel Core i9 14900KF official page
PCI Express Lanes — 20
PCI Express Version — 5.0
Technologies — - Compute: ABM, ADX, BMI1, BMI2, CLMUL, F16C, SHA- Performance: EIST, TBT 2.0, TBT 3.0, TSX, TVB- Virtualization: VT-d, VT-x- Security: RDRAND, TXT, XD bit

Performance Per Watt

Performance Per Watt specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i9 14900KF
Blender / Watt — 4.13 PPW
Cinebench 2024 / Watt — 16.6 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt — 163 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt — 464.5 PPW

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i9 14900KF
Date — Benchmark
📘 2025-12-07(Kuba) — Cinebench 2024
📘 2025-12-26(brix) — Cinebench 2024
📘 2026-01-04(JJ) — Cinebench 2024
📘 2026-01-15(crysis1974) — Cinebench 2024
📘 2026-05-06(Alfredo) — Cinebench 2024
📘 2026-08-04(muffo) — Cinebench 2026

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