Apple M5 Pro (15-Core) vs Intel Xeon 6980E+

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CPU Apple M5 Pro (15-Core) Apple · 2026-03

CPU Intel Xeon 6980E+ Intel · 2026-05

General Parameters

Release Date

Mar 2026

May 2026

Manufacturer

Apple

Intel

Type

Laptop

Server

Instruction Set

ARMv9

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Core Architecture

Apple M5

Clearwater Forest

Integrated Graphics

Apple M5 Pro GPU (18-core)

N/A

Generation

—

Xeon 6+ (Clearwater Forest-SP)

Package

Transistor Count

28 billions

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Manufacturing Process

3 nm

3 nm

Socket

Apple M-Socket

Intel Socket 7529

Peak Operating Temperature

100 °C

99°C

Power Consumption

—

400 W

Foundry

—

Intel

I/O Process Size

—

10 nm

I/O Die Size

—

2x 241

Package

—

FC-LGA18N

CPU Performance

Performance Cores

5

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Performance Core Threads

5

—

Performance Core Base Frequency

4.61 GHz

2.1 GHz

Efficiency Cores

10

—

Efficiency Core Threads

10

—

Total Core Count

15

264

Total Thread Count

15

264

Multiplier

46

21.0

Unlocked Multiplier

No

No

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

—

3.2 GHz

Bus Frequency

—

100 MHz

L1 Cache

—

96 KB per core

L2 Cache

—

4 MB per module

L3 Cache

—

528 MB shared

SMP

—

2

Memory Parameters

Memory Types

LPDDR5X-9600

DDR5-8000

Max Memory Bandwidth

307 GB/s

768.0 GB/s

ECC Memory Support

No

Yes

Max Memory Size

—

1.5 TB

Max Memory Channels

—

12

Graphics Card Parameters

Integrated Graphics

true

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Miscellaneous

PCIe Version

—

5

PCIe Lanes

—

96

Benchmark

Cinebench R23

2,569

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Cinebench R23

22,591

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Geekbench 6

4,283

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Geekbench 6

23,517

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Cinebench 2024

208

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Cinebench 2024

1,623

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▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.