Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) vs Intel Celeron N4500

[ 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 Celeron N4500 (16/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Apple M5 Pro (18-Core):
  • + Higher Efficiency score (98 vs 54)
  • + Higher Performance score (100 vs 17)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Celeron N4500
Efficiency 98.0 Excellent WINNER 54.0 Below Average
Performance 100.0 Excellent WINNER 17.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) 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 Pro (18-Core) Intel Celeron N4500
Background blur 100.3 images/sec 2.49 images/sec
Clang compilation 262.5 Klines/sec 7.93 Klines/sec
File compression 2530 MB/sec 94.3 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 738.1 pages/sec 31.7 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 744.9 Mpixels/sec 36.8 Mpixels/sec
Photo processing 250.8 images/sec 4.54 images/sec
Ray tracing 46.5 Mpixels/sec 1.13 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 450.7 pages/sec 85.1 pages/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Celeron N4500
Codename Apple M5 Jasper Lake
Instruction Set ARMv9 x86-64
Integrated GPU Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-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 Pro (18-Core) Intel Celeron N4500
ECC Support No No
Max. Memory Bandwidth 307 GB/s —
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 32 GB
Memory Channels 16 2
Memory Types - LPDDR5X-9600 - DDR4-2933

Package

Package specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Celeron N4500
Fabrication Process 3 nm 10 nm
Peak Temperature 100°C 105°C
Socket Apple M-Socket BGA-1338
Transistors 28 billions —
TDP (PL1) — 6 W

PassMark

PassMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Celeron N4500
Data compression 697.9 MBytes/sec 22.5 MBytes/sec
Data encryption 40.8 GBytes/sec 1.3 GBytes/sec
Extended instructions 33.3B Matrices/sec 0.6B Matrices/sec
Find prime numbers 486M Primes/sec 9M Primes/sec
Floating point math 186.8 GOps/sec 3.5 GOps/sec
Integer math 132.7 GOps/sec 5.5 GOps/sec
Physics 5687 Frames/sec 153 Frames/sec
Random string sorting 85.6M Strings/sec 3.1M Strings/sec

iGPU

iGPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Celeron N4500
Execution Units 320 16
GPU Boost Clock 1620 MHz 750 MHz
Integrated Graphics Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) Intel UHD Graphics (Jasper Lake 16 EU)
ROPs 80 4
Shading Units 2560 128
TGP 28 W 6-15 W
TMUs 160 8
GPU Base Clock — 350 MHz

Misc

Misc specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Celeron N4500
Official Site — Intel Celeron N4500 official page
PCI Express Lanes — 8
PCI Express Version — 3.0

Performance Per Watt

Performance Per Watt specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Celeron N4500
Blender / Watt — 1.11 PPW
Cinebench 2024 / Watt — 6.5 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt — 133.5 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt — 293.3 PPW

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