Apple M3 vs Intel Celeron N3060
We compared two laptop CPUs: Apple M3 with 8 cores 4.05GHz and Intel Celeron N3060 with 2 cores 1.6GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.
Main Differences
Apple M3 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 9 months late
Higher specification of memory (6400 vs 1600)
Larger memory bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)
Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 2.0)
Higher base frequency (4.05GHz vs 1.6GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 2MB)
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 14nm)
Intel Celeron N3060 's Advantages
Lower TDP (6W vs 20W)
Score
Benchmark
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Apple M3
+2516%
3009
Intel Celeron N3060
115
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Apple M3
+5548%
11805
Intel Celeron N3060
209
Passmark CPU Single Core
Apple M3
+679%
4850
Intel Celeron N3060
622
Passmark CPU Multi Core
Apple M3
+2905%
19597
Intel Celeron N3060
652
General Parameters
Oct 2023
Release Date
Jan 2016
Apple
Manufacturer
Intel
Laptop
Type
Laptop
ARMv8
Instruction Set
x86-64
Apple M3
Core Architecture
Braswell
-
Processor Number
N3060
Apple M-Socket
Socket
BGA-1170
Apple M3 GPU
Integrated Graphics
HD Graphics 400
Package
25 billions
Transistor Count
-
3 nm
Manufacturing Process
14 nm
20 W
Power Consumption
6 W
100°C
Peak Operating Temperature
90 °C
CPU Performance
4
Performance Cores
2
4
Performance Core Threads
2
4.05 GHz
Performance Core Base Frequency
1.6 GHz
4.05 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
-
4
Efficiency Cores
-
4
Efficiency Core Threads
-
2.75 GHz
Efficiency Core Base Frequency
-
2.57 GHz
Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency
-
8
Total Core Count
2
8
Total Thread Count
2
40x
Multiplier
-
192 K per core
L1 Cache
48 K per core
16 MB shared
L2 Cache
1 MB per core
64 MB shared
L3 Cache
2 MB shared
No
Unlocked Multiplier
No
Memory Parameters
LPDDR5-6400
Memory Types
DDR3L-1600
24 GB
Max Memory Size
8 GB
2
Max Memory Channels
2
102.4 GB/s
Max Memory Bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
No
ECC Memory Support
No
Graphics Card Parameters
true
Integrated Graphics
true
500 MHz
GPU Base Frequency
-
1600 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency
600 MHz
1280
Shader Units
-
80
Texture Units
-
40
Raster Operation Units
-
160
Execution Units
-
4.1 TFLOPS
Graphics Performance
-
