Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) vs Intel Core i3 1220P

[ 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 i3 1220P (44/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Apple M5 Pro (18-Core):
  • + Higher Efficiency score (98 vs 55)
  • + Higher Performance score (100 vs 60)
[ WINNER ]
Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)
Apple

Apple M5 Pro (18-Core)

97/100
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Intel Core i3 1220P
Intel

Intel Core i3 1220P

44/100
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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 i3 1220P
Efficiency 98.0 Excellent WINNER 55.0 Below Average
Performance 100.0 Excellent WINNER 60.0 Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 1220P
Base Frequency (E) 4.38 GHz 1.1 GHz
Base Frequency (P) 4.61 GHz 1.5 GHz
E-Cores 12 8
E-Threads 12 8
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 80K (per core)
Multiplier 46x 15x
P-Cores 6 2
P-Threads 6 4
Total Cores 18 10
Total Threads 18 12
Unlocked Multiplier No No
Bus Frequency — 100 MHz
L2 Cache — 1280K (per core)
L3 Cache — 12MB (shared)
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) — 3.3 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) — 4.4 GHz

GeekBench v6

GeekBench v6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 1220P
Background blur 100.3 images/sec 28.5 images/sec
Clang compilation 262.5 Klines/sec 57.1 Klines/sec
File compression 2530 MB/sec 438.3 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 738.1 pages/sec 139.1 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 744.9 Mpixels/sec 203 Mpixels/sec
Photo processing 250.8 images/sec 54.3 images/sec
Ray tracing 46.5 Mpixels/sec 12.3 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 450.7 pages/sec 211.9 pages/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 1220P
Codename Apple M5 Alder Lake
Instruction Set ARMv9 x86-64
Integrated GPU Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) UHD Graphics (64EU)
Released March 3, 2026 February 23, 2022
Type Laptop Laptop
Vendor Apple Intel
AMD Equivalent — -AMD Ryzen 3 5300U
Model number — i3-1220P

Memory Support

Memory Support specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 1220P
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 - DDR5-4800- DDR4-3200- LPDDR5-5200- LPDDR4x-4267

Package

Package specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 1220P
Fabrication Process 3 nm 10 nm
Peak Temperature 100°C 100°C
Socket Apple M-Socket BGA-1744
Transistors 28 billions —
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) — 64 W
TDP (PL1) — 20-28 W (configurable)

PassMark

PassMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 1220P
Data compression 697.9 MBytes/sec 189.4 MBytes/sec
Data encryption 40.8 GBytes/sec 12 GBytes/sec
Extended instructions 33.3B Matrices/sec 10.3B Matrices/sec
Find prime numbers 486M Primes/sec 37M Primes/sec
Floating point math 186.8 GOps/sec 37.6 GOps/sec
Integer math 132.7 GOps/sec 54.8 GOps/sec
Physics 5687 Frames/sec 785 Frames/sec
Random string sorting 85.6M Strings/sec 23.1M Strings/sec

iGPU

iGPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 1220P
Execution Units 320 64
GPU Boost Clock 1620 MHz 1100 MHz
Integrated Graphics Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) Intel UHD Graphics (64EU)
ROPs 80 16
Shading Units 2560 512
TGP 28 W 15 W
TMUs 160 32
GPU Base Clock — 300 MHz

Misc

Misc specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 1220P
Official Site — Intel Core i3 1220P official page
PCI Express Lanes — 20
PCI Express Version — 4.0
Technologies — - Compute: ABM, ADX, BMI1, BMI2, CLMUL, F16C, SHA- Performance: EIST, TBT 2.0, TSX- 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 i3 1220P
Blender / Watt — 3.02 PPW
Cinebench 2024 / Watt — 15.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt — 246.6 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt — 558.5 PPW

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i3 1220P
Date — Benchmark
📘 2025-01-22(tomasrs6) — Cinebench 2024
📘 2025-08-04(Ridho Galih) — Cinebench 2024

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