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Apple M5 Pro vs AMD E2-3800 with Radeon HD 8280: Comparison

Apple M5 Pro vs AMD E2-3800 with Radeon HD 8280 total cores compared

These two are close on paper, and total cores is the only measure that separates them at all: Apple M5 Pro 18 against AMD E2-3800 with Radeon HD 8280 4. The total threads figures are near enough to ignore, 18 on the Apple M5 Pro versus 4 on the AMD E2-3800 with Radeon HD 8280. Form factor is not the same on both, Laptop on the Apple M5 Pro versus Laptops on the AMD E2-3800 with Radeon HD 8280.

Apple M5 Pro vs AMD E2-3800 with Radeon HD 8280: which one fits your build

Take the Apple M5 Pro for developers, photographers and data work that loads every CPU core, where it runs within about 4 percent of the M5 Max in Geekbench 6 multi-core. The same goes for photoshop and Lightroom Classic users, since its PugetBench scores sit within 1 to 6 percent of the M5 Max. It is not the one for heavy video editing and color grading, where Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve scores run about 30 percent behind the M5 Max. The AMD E2-3800 with Radeon HD 8280 is the one to take for E-Series platform upgrades or repairs and budget legacy builds, though it is not the pick for modern gaming or productivity workloads and new builds. Our rating of the Apple M5 Pro (9/10): the M5 Pro gives you nearly all of the M5 Max's CPU speed. Pay for the Max only if your work leans on the GPU or needs more than 64GB of memory.