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Intel Core i5-10310Y vs Apple M1 Max

Intel Core i5-10310Y

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The Intel Core i5-10310Y is a extremely power efficient quad-core SoC for small laptops and tablets based on the Comet Lake (CML-Y) generation and was announced in August 2019. Compared to the similar Amber Lake processors (e.g. Core i7-8500Y), the only difference are two additional cores in the top models (except i3-10110Y). The processor cores are clocked between 1.1 and 4.1 GHz (all 4 cores 2.8 GHz max). Thanks to HyperThreading 8 threads can be used. Compared to the faster i7-10510Y, the level 3 cache is reduced to 6 MB and the clock rates are lower.

More information on Comet Lake and all the models and articles on it can be found here.

Performance

While we have not tested a single system built around the 10310Y as of August 2023, it's realistic to expect the chip to be about half as fast as the Core i5-10210U (Comet Lake, 4 cores, 8 threads, up to 4.2 GHz) in multi-thread workloads. Those 4 cores of the 10310Y are set to be very much constrained by the low TDP target leading to high DPC latencies and generally unresponsive system behaviour no matter the activity.

The integrated graphics adapter is still the same as in the previous generations. It should be still called Intel UHD Graphics 615 and clock from 300 - 1050 MHz in the i5. Furthermore, the SoC integrates a VP9 and H.265 de- and encoder.

The chip is now produced in the 14nm++ process (Amber Lake Y was 14nm+) but not 10nm like Ice Lake Y. The TDP is specified at 7 Watts but can be varied from 5.5 to 9 Watt from the manufacturer (cTDP up/down) resulting in different performance (especially Turbo durations).

Apple M1 Max

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The Apple M1 Max is a System on a Chip (SoC) from Apple that is found in the late 2021 MacBook Pro 14 and 16-inch models. It offers all 10 cores available in the chip divided in eight performance cores (P-cores with 600 - 3220 MHz) and two power-efficiency cores (E-cores with 600 - 2064 MHz). There is no Turbo Boost for single cores or short burst periods. The cores are similar to the cores in the Apple M1.

The big cores (codename Firestorm) offer 192 KB instruction cache, 128 KB data cache, and 24 MB shared L2 cache (up from 12 MB in the M1). The four efficiency cores (codename Icestorm) are a lot smaller and offer only 128 KB instruction cache, 64 KB data cache, and 4 MB shared cache. CPU and GPU can both use the 48 MB SLC (System Level Cache). The efficiency cores (E cluster) clock with 600 - 2064 MHz, the performance cores (P cluster) with 600 - 3228 MHz.

The unified memory (32 or 64 GB LPDDR5-6400) next to the chip is connected by a 512 bit memory controller (200 GB/s bandwidth) and can be used by the GPU and CPU. This is the main difference to the M1 Pro and the CPU performance is quite similar.

The biggest difference to the M1 Pro is the bigger integrated GPU with 24 or 32 cores (up from 16).

Furthermore, the SoC integrates a fast 16 core neural engine, a secure enclave (e.g., for encryption), a unified memory architecture, Thunderbolt 4 controller, an ISP, and media de- and encoders (including two ProRes engines).

The M1 Pro is manufactured in 5 nm at TSMC and integrates 57 billion transistors. The peak power consumption of the chip was advertised around 30W for CPU intensive tasks. 

ModelIntel Core i5-10310YApple M1 Max
SeriesIntel Amber LakeApple Apple M-Series
CodenameAmber Lake-Y
Series: Apple M-Series
Intel Core i5-10310Y « 1.1 - 4.1 GHz4 / 8 cores6 MB L3
Intel Core i5-10210Y compare1 - 4 GHz4 / 8 cores6 MB L3
Intel Core i7-8500Y compare1.5 - 4.2 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Core i3-10110Y compare1 - 4 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Core i5-8210Y compare1.6 - 3.6 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Core i5-8200Y compare1.3 - 3.9 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Core i3-10100Y compare1.3 - 3.9 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Core m3-8100Y compare1.1 - 3.4 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y compare1.1 - 3.4 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Apple M1 Max « 2.06 - 3.22 GHz10 / 10 cores48 MB L3
Apple M1 Pro compare2.06 - 3.22 GHz10 / 10 cores24 MB L3
Apple M1 Pro 8-Core compare2.06 - 3.22 GHz8 / 8 cores16 MB L3
Apple M1 compare2.06 - 3.22 GHz8 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Clock1100 - 4100 MHz2060 - 3220 MHz
L1 Cache128 KB2.9 MB
L2 Cache512 KB28 MB
L3 Cache6 MB48 MB
Cores / Threads4 / 810 / 10
TDP7 Watt
Technology14 nm5 nm
max. Temp.100 °C
SocketBGA1377
FeaturesDDR3L-1600/LPDDR3-2133 RAM, PCIe 3, 4 GT/s bus, vPro, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, VMX, SMEP, SMAP, MPX, EIST, TM1, TM2, Hyper-Threading, Turbo, SST, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SGXARMv8 Instruction Set
iGPUIntel UHD Graphics 615 (300 - 1050 MHz)Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU
Architecturex86ARM
Announced
Manufacturerark.intel.com
Transistors57000 Million

Benchmarks

Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Multi Core
100%
1 M1 Max +
min: 12385     avg: 12389     median: 12386 (12%)     max: 12396 Points
Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Single Core
100%
1 M1 Max +
min: 1530     avg: 1533     median: 1533 (65%)     max: 1536 Points
Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Single Core)
100%
1 M1 Max +
min: 390     avg: 393.3     median: 395 (44%)     max: 395 Points
Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Multi Core)
100%
1 M1 Max +
min: 2735     avg: 2746     median: 2750 (7%)     max: 2753 Points
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64 Bit
100%
1 M1 Max +
min: 1689     avg: 1691     median: 1691 (11%)     max: 1693 Points
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64 Bit
100%
1 M1 Max +
min: 197     avg: 202.3     median: 200 (60%)     max: 210 Points
Blender - Blender 2.79 BMW27 CPU *
100%
1 M1 Max +
min: 187     avg: 188.7     median: 189 (1%)     max: 190 Seconds
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 M1 Max +
min: 1764     avg: 1780     median: 1782 (75%)     max: 1795 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 M1 Max +
min: 12563     avg: 12656     median: 12697 (23%)     max: 12708 Points
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
100%
1 M1 Max +
min: 404.3     avg: 459.2     median: 482.3 (1%)     max: 491.1 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
100%
1 M1 Max +
min: 66938     avg: 68647     median: 68029 (60%)     max: 70973 Points
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
100%
1 M1 Max +
min: 350     avg: 358.7     median: 360 (75%)     max: 366 Points
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
100%
1 M1 Max +
min: 1586     avg: 1607     median: 1615 (62%)     max: 1621 Points
Power Consumption - Prime95 Power Consumption - external Monitor *
100%
1 M1 Max +
50.8 Watt (9%)
Power Consumption - Cinebench R15 Multi Power Consumption - external Monitor *
100%
1 M1 Max +
53 Watt (10%)
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption - external Monitor *
100%
1 M1 Max +
11.6 Watt (8%)
Power Consumption - Cinebench R15 Multi Power Efficiency - external Monitor
100%
1 M1 Max +
31.9 Points per Watt (24%)

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