Apple M1 vs Intel Xeon Gold 5217. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Apple M1 Intel Xeon Gold 5200/6200
• Family
  Apple M series Intel Xeon Gold
• Generation
  1 2
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  4x Firestorm -
• B-Core
  4x Icestorm -
• Base Frequency
  3.2 GHz 3 GHz
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• CPU Cores
  8 8
• CPU Threads
  8 16
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.7 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  No turbo 3.5 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• Execution units
  128 -
• Generation
  1 -
• GPU Frequency
  3200 MHz -
• GPU name
  Apple M1 (8 Core) no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  2 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB -
• Release date
  Q4/2020 -
• Shader
  0 -
• Technology
  5 nm -

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  Decode No
• H.264 / AVC
  Conflicting source values: Decode | Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• VP8
  Decode No
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon Gold 5217 and Apple M1. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  16 GB -
• Memory channels
  2 6
• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-4266 DDR4-2666
• PCIe lanes
  - 48
• PCIe version
  4.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple M1 and Intel Xeon Gold 5217 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  15 W 115 W
• TDP down
  10 W -
• TDP up
  20 W -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple M1 and Intel Xeon Gold 5217, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  M1 Cascade Lake
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L2-Cache
  16 MB -
• L3-Cache
  - 11 MB
• Release date
  Q4/2020 Q2/2019
• Socket
  - LGA 3647
• Technology
  5 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  None VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d