With Intel officially launching the Meteor Lake series of processors (Core Ultra), many people will be curious whether the performance and battery life have caught up with the Apple M3 series? Earlier, the well-known foreign Max Tech channel shared relevant actual measurements. Although the overall performance is still behind M3/M3 Pro, the battery life has improved a lot, which is worthy of appreciation.
Intel Core Ultra vs Apple M3/Pro performance measurement, has Intel caught up with M3 this time?
The Intel Core Ultra processor used in the Max Tech channel is Ultra 7 155H. This processor is not the most powerful in Meteor Lake. Ultra 9 185H is. This is why most Ultra 7 155H vs. Apple M series comparison reviews are compared with M2. In any case, this test film can still give some reference.
Basic specifications:
- Ultra 7 155H is equipped with 16 cores, consisting of 6 P-core, 8 E-core and 2 LP-E, with a total of 22 threads and a base power of 28W
- M3 is equipped with 8 cores, consisting of 4 performance cores and 4 energy-saving cores, with a base power of 20W
In the multi-core test part of Geekbench 6.2, it is not surprising that Ultra 7 155H beats M3. After all, the number of cores is higher, with a score of 12,319, slightly beating 12,012:
Single-core performance lags behind, with M3 leading Ultra 7 155H by about 30%:
In the newly launched Cinebench 2024 test software, Ultra 7 155H scored 607, a little behind Apple M3’s 710:
The Apple M3 still wins a lot in terms of performance per watt, reaching 35.3, while the Ultra 7 155H is 21.6:
Next is the AI performance test. The benchmark software they used is Procyon AI Benchmark. The Apple M3 scored 916, significantly ahead of the Ultra 7 155H’s 215:
For the GPU part, although the performance has been greatly improved this time, it has already caught up with AMD 780M, but there is still a gap compared with the M3. In the Geekbench 6 Compute test, the Ultra 7 155H scored 30,191:
The same goes for the 3DMark Wild Life Extreme test, where Apple M3’s 49FPS score is significantly ahead of Intel’s. However, it should be noted that when it comes to actual games, Intel is still the first choice. After all, the Apple M series requires translation to play PC games, and the current compatibility is not very good:
Next is the battery life that many people are concerned about. In the past, the battery life of Intel laptops was quite poor compared to the MacBook series, but this time Meteor Lake has improved a lot. In severe tests, it was only 1 to 2 hours behind (but Zenbook 14 has a larger battery):
Mixed actual use conditions lag far behind. Zenbook 14 can provide 6~8 hours of battery life, while M3 MacBook Pro can reach 9~11 hours:
The above are the results of M3 vs Ultra 7 155H. In the video, the comparison results with M3 Pro are also shared. It must be better, so I won’t go into details here. For details, you can watch the full video below:
Source: KOCPC Chinese