Apple M1 vs Mobile Pentium 4 538

Primary details

Comparing Mobile Pentium 4 538 and Apple M1 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1194
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesMobile Pentium 4Apple Apple M-Series
Architecture codenamePrescott (2001−2005)no data
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)10 November 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Mobile Pentium 4 538 and Apple M1 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores1 (Single-Core)8 (Octa-Core)
Threads18
Base clock speedno data2.064 GHz
Boost clock speed3.2 GHz3.2 GHz
Bus rate533 MHzno data
L1 cacheno data2 MB
L2 cacheno data16 MB
L3 cacheno data16 MB
Chip lithography90 nm5 nm
Number of transistorsno data16000 Million
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Mobile Pentium 4 538 and Apple M1 compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Power consumption (TDP)88 Wattno data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataApple M1 8-Core GPU

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 1 8
Threads 1 8
Chip lithography 90 nm 5 nm

Apple M1 has 700% more physical cores and 700% more threads, and a 1700% more advanced lithography process.

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