Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU). Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 Apple M series
• Generation
  4 1
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v2 Apple M1
• Successor
  Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 --

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.70 GHz 3.20 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.50 GHz No turbo
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)

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

• GPU name
  no iGPU Apple M1 Pro (16 Core)
• GPU frequency
  1.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  256
• Shader
  2048
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 16 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  1
• Technology
  5 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2021

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) and Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1866 LPDDR5-6400
• Max. Memory
  32 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  4 2

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 and Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  130 W 30 W
• TDP up
  -- 40 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 and Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
• L2-Cache
  -- 28.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  30.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge EP M1
• Technology
  22 nm 5 nm
• Socket
  LGA 2011 N/A
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q3/2021
• Part Number
  -- APL 1103