Key Differences
Advantages of Intel Core 5 120U
Advantages of Apple M2
Specifications
Performance
| L3 Cache | 12MB (shared) | - |
| Integrated GPU | Iris Xe Graphics (80EU) | Apple M2 GPU |
| TGP | 15 W | 15 W |
Display
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Other
| File compression | 939.7 MB/sec | 1130 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 54 Klines/sec | 80.4 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 214 pages/sec | 235.3 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 236.1 Mpixels/sec | 266.1 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 250.6 pages/sec | 257.4 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 36.3 images/sec | 42.1 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 91 images/sec | 107 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 11.6 Mpixels/sec | 10.5 Mpixels/sec |
| Integer math | 55.7 GOps/sec | 37 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 38.7 GOps/sec | 37.7 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 60M Primes/sec | 175M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 20.6M Strings/sec | 23.8M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 11.3 GBytes/sec | 9.5 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 179.5 MBytes/sec | 186.4 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 1043 Frames/sec | 1666 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 10B Matrices/sec | 7.7B Matrices/sec |
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 28.1 PPW | 32.3 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 574 PPW | 562.3 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 1087.7 PPW | 869.5 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | 6.48 PPW | 6.07 PPW |
| Vendor | Intel | Apple |
| Released | January 9, 2024 | June 6, 2022 |
| Instruction Set | x86-64 | ARMv8 |
| Codename | Raptor Lake Refresh | Apple M2 |
| Model number | 120U | - |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - |
| P-Cores | 2 | 4 |
| P-Threads | 4 | 4 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 1.4 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (P) | 5 GHz | - |
| E-Cores | 8 | 4 |
| E-Threads | 8 | 4 |
| Base Frequency (E) | 0.9 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (E) | 3.8 GHz | - |
| Total Cores | 10 | 8 |
| Total Threads | 12 | 8 |
| Bus Frequency | 100 MHz | - |
| Multiplier | 14x | - |
| L1 Cache | 80K (per core) | 192K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 1280K (per core) | 16MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
| Fabrication Process | 10 nm | 5 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 12-15 W (configurable) | 18 W |
| Max. Boost TDP (PL2) | 55 W | - |
| Socket | BGA-1744 | Apple M-Socket |
| Peak Temperature | 100°C | - |
| Integrated Graphics | Intel Iris Xe Graphics (80EU) | Apple M2 GPU |
| GPU Base Clock | 300 MHz | 500 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1300 MHz | 1398 MHz |
| Shading Units | 640 | 1024 |
| TMUs | 40 | 64 |
| ROPs | 20 | 32 |
| Execution Units | 80 | 128 |
| Memory Types | - DDR5-5200 - DDR4-3200 - LPDDR5-6400 - LPDDR5x-6400 - LPDDR4x-4267 | - LPDDR5-6400 |
| Max. Memory Size | 96 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory Channels | 2 | 2 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | - | 102.4 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | No |
| Official Site | Intel Core 5 120U official page | - |
| PCI Express Version | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 20 | - |
| Transistors | - | 20 billions |