Apple M2 Ultra vs Intel Core i5 1030G4

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We compared two laptop CPUs: Apple M2 Ultra with 24 cores 3.5GHz and Intel Core i5 1030G4 with 4 cores 0.7GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Apple M2 Ultra's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Higher specification of memory (LPDDR5-6400 vs LPDDR4-3733)

Larger memory bandwidth (800GB/s vs 58.3GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 3.0)

Higher base frequency (3.5GHz vs 0.7GHz)

Intel Core i5 1030G4's Advantages

Lower TDP (9W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 5 Single Core

Apple M2 Ultra +83%

1956

Intel Core i5 1030G4

1064

Geekbench 5 Multi Core

Apple M2 Ultra +913%

27945

Intel Core i5 1030G4

2757

Apple M2 Ultra

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Intel Core i5 1030G4

General Parameters

May 2023

Release Date

Aug 2019

Apple

Manufacturer

Intel

Laptop

Type

Laptop

ARMv8

Instruction Set

x86-64

Apple M2

Core Architecture

Ice Lake

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Processor Number

i5-1030G4

Apple M-Socket

Socket

BGA-1440

Apple M2 Max GPU (76-core)

Integrated Graphics

Iris Plus Graphics G4

Package

134 billions

Transistor Count

-

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

10 nm

Apple M-Socket

Socket

BGA-1440

60 W

Power Consumption

9 W

100°C

Peak Operating Temperature

100 °C

CPU Performance

16

Performance Cores

4

16

Performance Core Threads

8

3.5 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

0.7 GHz

-

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.5 GHz

8

Efficiency Cores

-

8

Efficiency Core Threads

-

2.4 GHz

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

-

24

Total Core Count

4

24

Total Thread Count

8

-

Bus Frequency

100MHz

35x

Multiplier

7x

192K per core

L1 Cache

64K per core

64MB shared

L2 Cache

256K per core

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L3 Cache

6MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

Memory Parameters

LPDDR5-6400

Memory Types

LPDDR4-3733

192GB

Max Memory Size

32GB

16

Max Memory Channels

2

800 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

58.3 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

True

Integrated Graphics

True

-

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1050 MHz

Miscellaneous

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Official Website

Intel Core i5 1030G4

4.0

PCIe Version

3.0

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Extended Instruction Set

SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2, AVX-512

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