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MagyarIntel Processor N50 vs Apple M3 Max 14-Core
Intel Processor N50
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The Intel Processor N50 is an entry-level mobile CPU for thin and light laptops from the Alder Lake-N series. It was announced in early 2023 and offers no performance cores and 2 of the 8 efficient cores (E-cores, Gracemont architecture). The chip does not support HyperThreading and clocks with up to 3.4 GHz. The performance of the E-cores should be similar to old Skylake cores (compare to the Core i7-6700HQ). All cores can use up to 6 MB L3-cache.
Performance
The performance is clearly lower than the Processor N100 (4 cores, 3.4 GHz) due to the reduced core count. The single thread performance however, should be similar. Compared to older processors, the N50 should be comparable to dual core Skylake based CPUs like the Intel Core m3-8100Y (2x 3.4 GHz, 5W).Features
The Alder Lake-N chips only support single channel memory with up to DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200 or LPDDR5-4800. The chip also supports Quick Sync and AV1 decoding (most likely same engine as in Alder Lake). Furthermore, Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 are partly integrated (but no Thunderbolt). External chips can be connected via PCIe Gen3 x9 (via the PCH).
The integrated graphics adapter is based on the Xe-architecture and offers only 16 of the 32 EUs (Execution Units) operating at only up to 750 MHz. Due to the single channel memory, low clock speeds, and low shader count, the gaming performance of the iGPU is very limited.
Power consumption
The N50 has a base power consumption of only 6 W and is therefore suited for fanless cooling. The CPU is built with a further improved 10nm SuperFin process at Intel (called Intel 7).
Apple M3 Max 14-Core
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The Apple M3 Max 14 core CPU is a system on a chip (SoC) from Apple for notebooks that was introduced towards the end of 2023. It integrates a new 14-core CPU with 10 performance cores with up to 4.06 GHz and 4 efficiency cores with 2.8 GHz. There is also a more powerful 16-core variant with 40 GPU cores.
Thanks to the higher clock rates and architectural improvements, the processor performance is also significantly better than the M2 Max in benchmarks and can keep up with the fastest mobile CPUs.
The M3 also integrates a new graphics card with dynamic caching, mesh shading and ray tracing acceleration via hardware. In the cheaper model, 30 of the chip's 40 cores are used and support up to 5 displays simultaneously (internal and 4 external).
GPU and CPU can jointly access the shared memory on the package (unified memory). This is available in 36 and 96 GB variants and offers 400 GB/s maximum bandwidth (512 bit bus).
The integrated 16-core Neural Engine has also been revised and now offers 18 TOPS peak performance (compared to 15.8 TOPS in the M2 but 35 TOPS in the new A17 Pro). The video engine now also supports AV1 decoding in hardware. H.264, HEVC and ProRes (RAW) can still be decoded and encoded. Like its predecessor, the Max chip offers two video engines and can therefore encode and decode two streams simultaneously.
Unfortunately, the integrated WLAN only continues to support WiFi 6E (no WiFi 7), unlike the small M3 SoC thunderbolt 4 is also supported (max 40 Gbit/s).
The chip is manufactured in the current 3nm process (N3B) at TSMC and contains 92 billion transistors (+37% vs. Apple M2 Max).
| Model | Intel Processor N50 | Apple M3 Max 14-Core | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Series | Intel Alder Lake-N | Apple Apple M3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Codename | Alder Lake-N | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Series: Apple M3 |
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| Clock | 1000 - 3400 MHz | 2748 - 4056 MHz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| L3 Cache | 6 MB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cores / Threads | 2 / 2 2 x 3.4 GHz Intel Gracemont E-Core | 14 / 14 10 x 4.1 GHz Apple M3 P-Core 4 x 2.7 GHz Apple M3 E-Core | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TDP | 6 Watt | 78 Watt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Technology | 10 nm | 3 nm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| max. Temp. | 105 °C | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| iGPU | Intel UHD Graphics Xe 16EUs (Tiger Lake-H) ( - 750 MHz) | Apple M3 Max 30-Core GPU | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Architecture | x86 | ARM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Announced | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manufacturer | ark.intel.com | www.apple.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transistors | 92000 Million | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Features | ARMv8 Instruction Set |
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card