Apple M1
Apple M1 vs Intel Xeon E-2136
CPU Comparison Result
Below are the results of a comparison of the characteristics and performance of the Apple M1 and Intel Xeon E-2136 processors. This comparison will help you determine which one best suits your needs.
Basic
Label Name
Apple
Intel
Launch Date
November 2020
July 2018
Platform
Laptop
Server
CPU Name
Apple M1
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Part Number
T8103
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Model Name
?
The Intel processor number is just one of several factors - along with processor brand, system configurations, and system-level benchmarks - to be considered when choosing the right processor for your computing needs.
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E-2136
Code Name
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Coffee Lake
Foundry
TSMC
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CPU Specifications
Efficient-cores
4
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Performance-cores
4
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Total Cores
?
Cores is a hardware term that describes the number of independent central processing units in a single computing component (die or chip).
8
6
Total Threads
?
Where applicable, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology is only available on Performance-cores.
8
12
Basic Frequency
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3.30 GHz
CPU Architecture
Apple Firestorm + Apple Icestorm
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Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
?
Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x) allows one hardware platform to function as multiple “virtual” platforms. It offers improved manageability by limiting downtime and maintaining productivity by isolating computing activities into separate partitions.
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Yes
Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
?
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) continues from the existing support for IA-32 (VT-x) and Itanium® processor (VT-i) virtualization adding new support for I/O-device virtualization. Intel VT-d can help end users improve security and reliability of the systems and also improve performance of I/O devices in virtualized environments.
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Yes
Max Turbo Frequency
?
Max Turbo Frequency is the maximum single-core frequency at which the processor is capable of operating using Intel® Turbo Boost Technology and, if present, Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 and Intel® Thermal Velocity Boost. Frequency is typically measured in gigahertz (GHz), or billion cycles per second.
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4.50 GHz
Efficient-core Max Turbo Frequency
?
Maximum E-core turbo frequency derived from Intel® Turbo Boost Technology.
2.064 GHz
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Performance-core Max Turbo Frequency
?
Maximum P-core turbo frequency derived from Intel® Turbo Boost Technology.
3.204 GHz
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Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology
?
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology is an advanced means of enabling high performance while meeting the power-conservation needs of mobile systems. Conventional Intel SpeedStep® Technology switches both voltage and frequency in tandem between high and low levels in response to processor load. Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology builds upon that architecture using design strategies such as Separation between Voltage and Frequency Changes, and Clock Partitioning and Recovery.
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Yes
Intel Hyper-Threading Technology
?
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) delivers two processing threads per physical core. Highly threaded applications can get more work done in parallel, completing tasks sooner.
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Yes
Intel Turbo Boost Technology
?
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology dynamically increases the processor's frequency as needed by taking advantage of thermal and power headroom to give you a burst of speed when you need it, and increased energy efficiency when you don’t.
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2.0
Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 Frequency
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4.50 GHz
L1 Cache
P-cores: 192 KB instruction + 128 KB data per core; E-cores: 128 KB instruction + 64 KB data per core
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L2 Cache
P-core cluster: 12 MB; E-core cluster: 4 MB
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Cache
?
CPU Cache is an area of fast memory located on the processor. Intel® Smart Cache refers to the architecture that allows all cores to dynamically share access to the last level cache.
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12 MB Intel® Smart Cache
CPU Socket
?
The socket is the component that provides the mechanical and electrical connections between the processor and motherboard.
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FCLGA1151
Intel AES New Instructions
?
Intel® AES New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI) are a set of instructions that enable fast and secure data encryption and decryption. AES-NI are valuable for a wide range of cryptographic applications, for example: applications that perform bulk encryption/decryption, authentication, random number generation, and authenticated encryption.
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Yes
Technology
?
Lithography refers to the semiconductor technology used to manufacture an integrated circuit, and is reported in nanometer (nm), indicative of the size of features built on the semiconductor.
5 nm
14 nm
TDP
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80 W
Max. Operating Temperature
?
Junction Temperature is the maximum temperature allowed at the processor die.
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100°C
PCI Express Version
?
PCI Express Revision is the supported version of the PCI Express standard. Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (or PCIe) is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard for attaching hardware devices to a computer. The different PCI Express versions support different data rates.
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3.0
Instruction Set
?
The instruction set is a hard program stored inside the CPU that guides and optimizes CPU operations. With these instruction sets, the CPU can run more efficiently. There are many manufacturers that design CPUs, which results in different instruction sets, such as the 8086 instruction set for the Intel camp and the RISC instruction set for the ARM camp. x86, ARM v8, and MIPS are all codes for instruction sets. Instruction sets can be extended; for example, x86 added 64-bit support to create x86-64. Manufacturers developing CPUs that are compatible with a certain instruction set need authorization from the instruction set patent holder. A typical example is Intel authorizing AMD, enabling the latter to develop CPUs compatible with the x86 instruction set.
ARMv8.4-A
64-bit
Extended Instruction Set
ARMv8.4-A, NEON
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Instruction Set Extensions
NEON
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Intel 64
?
Intel® 64 architecture delivers 64-bit computing on server, workstation, desktop and mobile platforms when combined with supporting software.¹ Intel 64 architecture improves performance by allowing systems to address more than 4 GB of both virtual and physical memory.
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Yes
Intel VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)
?
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT), also known as Second Level Address Translation (SLAT), provides acceleration for memory intensive virtualized applications. Extended Page Tables in Intel® Virtualization Technology platforms reduces the memory and power overhead costs and increases battery life through hardware optimization of page table management.
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Yes
PCI Express Configurations
?
PCI Express (PCIe) Configurations describe the available PCIe lane configurations that can be used to link to PCIe devices.
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1x16 | 2x8 | 1x8+2x4
Max Number of PCI Express Lanes
?
A PCI Express (PCIe) lane consists of two differential signaling pairs, one for receiving data, one for transmitting data, and is the basic unit of the PCIe bus. Max # of PCI Express Lanes is the total number of supported lanes.
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16
Transistor Count
16 billion
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Memory Specifications
Memory Type
?
Intel® processors come in four different types: Single Channel, Dual Channel, Triple Channel, and Flex Mode. Maximum supported memory speed may be lower when populating multiple DIMMs per channel on products that support multiple memory channels.
Unified LPDDR4X-4266
DDR4-2666
Max Memory Size
?
Max memory size refers to the maximum memory capacity supported by the processor.
16 GB
128 GB
Memory Channels
?
The number of memory channels refers to the bandwidth operation for real world application.
2
2
Bus Speed
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8 GT/s
Max Memory Bandwidth
?
Max Memory bandwidth is the maximum rate at which data can be read from or stored into a semiconductor memory by the processor (in GB/s).
68.25 GB/s
41.6 GB/s
Memory Bus Width
128-bit
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ECC Memory Supported
?
ECC Memory Supported indicates processor support for Error-Correcting Code memory. ECC memory is a type of system memory that can detect and correct common kinds of internal data corruption. Note that ECC memory support requires both processor and chipset support.
No
Yes
GPU Specifications
GPU Name
Apple M1 GPU
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Video Decode
H.264, HEVC (H.265); multiple 4K video streams / up to 4K 60 fps depending on codec, bitrate and app
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Video Encode
H.264, HEVC (H.265); up to 4K 60 fps depending on profile, level and app
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Graphics Core Count
8
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GPU APIs
Metal, OpenCL
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Graphics Performance
Up to 2.6 TFLOPS FP32
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Media Engine
Media encode and decode engines
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Video Decode Engines
1
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Video Encode Engines
1
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ProRes Encode/Decode Engines
No
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AI Specifications
NPU Name
Apple Neural Engine
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NPU Performance
11 TOPS
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AI Engine
16-core Apple Neural Engine
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Neural Engine Core Count
16
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Connectivity
Bluetooth Support
Yes
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Bluetooth Version
Bluetooth 5.0
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Wi-Fi Standard
Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)
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Interfaces and Ports
Thunderbolt Support
Yes, up to 40 Gbps
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USB Version
USB4
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USB4 Support
Yes, up to 40 Gbps
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Miscellaneous
Hardware-Verified Secure Boot
Yes, Apple silicon secure boot chain of trust
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Image Signal Processor
Apple image signal processor
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Runtime Anti-Exploitation
KIP, FPR, SCIP, PAC, PPL
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Intel Standard Manageability (ISM)
?
Intel® Standard Manageability is the manageability solution for Intel vPro® Essentials platforms and is a subset of Intel® AMT with out-of-band management over Ethernet and Wi-Fi, but no KVM or new life cycle management features.
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Intel® SSE4.1 | Intel® SSE4.2 | Intel® AVX2
Execute Disable Bit
?
Execute Disable Bit is a hardware-based security feature that can reduce exposure to viruses and malicious-code attacks and prevent harmful software from executing and propagating on the server or network.
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Yes
Intel Boot Guard
?
Intel® Device Protection Technology with Boot Guard helps protect the system’s pre-OS environment from viruses and malicious software attacks.
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Yes
Intel OS Guard
?
Intel OS Guard is a security technology designed to protect operating systems from threats. It is a hardware feature built into Intel processors that helps prevent malicious code from executing in privileged modes of the operating system.
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Yes
Advantages
Apple M1
- More Total Cores: 8 (8 vs 6)
- Higher Technology: 5 nm (5 nm vs 14 nm)
- Newer Launch Date: November 2020 (November 2020 vs July 2018)
Passmark CPU
Single Core
Apple M1
+38%
3688
Xeon E-2136
2671
Multi Core
Apple M1
+5%
14156
Xeon E-2136
13451
Performance
Integer Math
Multi Core
33.5 GOps/Sec
45 GOps/Sec
Floating Point Math
Multi Core
35.7 GOps/Sec
28.1 GOps/Sec
Find Prime Numbers
Multi Core
141 M Primes/Sec
39 M Primes/Sec
Random String Sorting
Multi Core
21.2 M Strings/Sec
25.4 M Strings/Sec
Data Encryption
Multi Core
8.6 GB/Sec
5 GB/Sec
Data Compression
Multi Core
169.4 MB/Sec
193.8 MB/Sec
Physics
Multi Core
1375 Frames/Sec
798 Frames/Sec
Extended Instructions
Multi Core
6.8 B Matrices/Sec
12.4 B Matrices/Sec
Single Thread
Multi Core
3.7 GOps/Sec
2.7 GOps/Sec
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Geekbench 6
Single Core
Apple M1
+87%
2345
Xeon E-2136
1253
Multi Core
Apple M1
+42%
8066
Xeon E-2136
5693
Geekbench 5
Single Core
Apple M1
+114%
1729
Xeon E-2136
809
Multi Core
Apple M1
+413%
7501
Xeon E-2136
1463
SiliconCat Rating
218
Ranks 218 among Laptop CPU on our website
729
Ranks 729 among all CPU on our website
326
Ranks 326 among Server CPU on our website
1037
Ranks 1037 among all CPU on our website
Xeon E-2136
