Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) vs Intel Core i5 13500H

[ 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 i5 13500H (53/100), 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 i5 13500H
Intel

Intel Core i5 13500H

53/100
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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 i5 13500H
Efficiency 98.0 Excellent WINNER 56.0 Below Average
Performance 100.0 Excellent WINNER 67.0 Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i5 13500H
Base Frequency (E) 4.38 GHz 1.9 GHz
Base Frequency (P) 4.61 GHz 2.6 GHz
E-Cores 12 8
E-Threads 12 8
L1 Cache 192K (per core) 80K (per core)
Multiplier 46x 26x
P-Cores 6 4
P-Threads 6 8
Total Cores 18 12
Total Threads 18 16
Unlocked Multiplier No No
Bus Frequency — 100 MHz
L2 Cache — 2MB (per core)
L3 Cache — 18MB (shared)
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) — 3.5 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) — 4.7 GHz

GeekBench v6

GeekBench v6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i5 13500H
Background blur 100.3 images/sec 47.8 images/sec
Clang compilation 262.5 Klines/sec 80.4 Klines/sec
File compression 2530 MB/sec 1040 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 738.1 pages/sec 277.6 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 744.9 Mpixels/sec 349.1 Mpixels/sec
Photo processing 250.8 images/sec 101.9 images/sec
Ray tracing 46.5 Mpixels/sec 15.7 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 450.7 pages/sec 245.9 pages/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i5 13500H
Codename Apple M5 Raptor Lake
Instruction Set ARMv9 x86-64
Integrated GPU Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) Iris Xe Graphics (80EU)
Released March 3, 2026 January 3, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Vendor Apple Intel
AMD Equivalent — -AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS
Model number — i5-13500H
Successor — -Intel Core Ultra 5 235H

Memory Support

Memory Support specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i5 13500H
ECC Support No No
Max. Memory Bandwidth 307 GB/s —
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 96 GB
Memory Channels 16 2
Memory Types - LPDDR5X-9600 - DDR5-5200- DDR4-3200- LPDDR5-6400- LPDDR5x-6400- LPDDR4x-4267

Package

Package specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i5 13500H
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) — 95 W
TDP (PL1) — 35-45 W (configurable)

PassMark

PassMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i5 13500H
Data compression 697.9 MBytes/sec 248.2 MBytes/sec
Data encryption 40.8 GBytes/sec 14.6 GBytes/sec
Extended instructions 33.3B Matrices/sec 14.5B Matrices/sec
Find prime numbers 486M Primes/sec 73M Primes/sec
Floating point math 186.8 GOps/sec 51.1 GOps/sec
Integer math 132.7 GOps/sec 71.4 GOps/sec
Physics 5687 Frames/sec 1257 Frames/sec
Random string sorting 85.6M Strings/sec 27.5M Strings/sec

iGPU

iGPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i5 13500H
Execution Units 320 80
GPU Boost Clock 1620 MHz 1450 MHz
Integrated Graphics Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) Intel Iris Xe Graphics (80EU)
ROPs 80 20
Shading Units 2560 640
TGP 28 W 15 W
TMUs 160 40
GPU Base Clock — 300 MHz

Cinebench

Cinebench specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i5 13500H
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) — 3478
Cinebench 2026 (Single) — 570

Misc

Misc specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i5 13500H
Official Site — Intel Core i5 13500H official page
PCI Express Lanes — 28
PCI Express Version — 5.0
Technologies — - Compute: ABM, ADX, BMI1, BMI2, CLMUL, F16C, SHA- Performance: EIST, TBT 2.0, TBT 3.0, TSX- Virtualization: VT-d, VT-x- Security: RDRAND, TXT, XD bit, vPro

Performance Per Watt

Performance Per Watt specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i5 13500H
Blender / Watt — 3.79 PPW
Cinebench 2024 / Watt — 17.6 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt — 250 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt — 464.6 PPW

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 Pro (18-Core) Intel Core i5 13500H
Date — Benchmark
📘 2023-11-26(SAIMON) — Cinebench 2024
📘 2026-06-08(jhu) — Cinebench 2026

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