{"id":214070,"date":"2026-02-16T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/intel-panther-lake-almost-matches-apples-m5-chip-in-an-elaborate-battery-test\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:35:07","slug":"intel-panther-lake-almost-matches-apples-m5-chip-in-an-elaborate-battery-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/intel-panther-lake-almost-matches-apples-m5-chip-in-an-elaborate-battery-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel Panther Lake Almost Matches Apple&#8217;s M5 Chip In An Elaborate Battery Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wccftech.com\/intel-panther-lake-almost-matches-apples-m5-chip-in-an-elaborate-battery-test\/\">Intel Panther Lake Almost Matches Apple&#8217;s M5 Chip In An Elaborate Battery Test<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wccftech.com\/intel-panther-lake-almost-matches-apples-m5-chip-in-an-elaborate-battery-test\/\">https:\/\/wccftech.com\/intel-panther-lake-almost-matches-apples-m5-chip-in-an-elaborate-battery-test\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-16 09:23:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wccftech.com\">wccftech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a development that seemingly bodes well for the efficiency and stability of Intel&#8217;s revamped chip fabrication process, the new Panther Lake SoC has managed to just about match Apple&#8217;s M5 processor &#8211; housed within the MacBook Pro &#8211; in an elaborate battery test.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-intel-panther-lake-within-the-new-asus-14-inch-expertbook-ultra-pitted-against-apple-s-m5-chip-housed-within-the-14-inch-macbook-pro\">Intel Panther Lake within the new Asus 14-inch ExpertBook Ultra pitted against Apple&#8217;s M5 chip housed within the 14-inch MacBook Pro<\/h2>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Panther Lake is INSANE vs Apple M5 - I was WRONG!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q77AzvY3FTE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>At the outset, we should concede that this test pitted Intel&#8217;s latest best chip for mobile phones and high-efficiency laptops, the 18A-based Panther Lake, against Apple&#8217;s lowest-end new processor, the M5. <\/p>\n<p>Even so, given Apple&#8217;s heavily optimized ecosystem, any incremental gains by Intel do count, albeit with varying degrees of importance. Of course, the fact that this test used the new Asus 14-inch ExpertBook Ultra, which is one of the most compelling Windows laptops to launch recently, would have played some role in evening out Apple&#8217;s optimizations-related upper hand.<\/p>\n<p>Before jumping on to the battery test, here is how the two devices stack against each other in some critical benchmarks:<\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Asus 14-inch ExpertBook Ultra has a 32GB RAM and a 1TB SSD vs. a 16GB RAM and a 512 GB SSD on the M5 MacBook Pro.<\/li>\n<li>The Asus laptop boasts of SSD read speeds of 13,980MB\/s vs. 6,797MB\/s for the M5 MacBook Pro, as per the Blackmagic speed test.<\/li>\n<li>The Asus ExpertBook Ultra has a Geekbench 6 CPU single-core score of 2,823 and a multi-core one of 15,449. <\/li>\n<li>The Apple M5 MacBook Pro has a Geekbench 6 CPU single-core score of 4,328 and a multi-core one of 17,987.<\/li>\n<li>The Intel Arc B390 GPU within the Asus ExpertBook Ultra has an OpenCL score of 50,072.<\/li>\n<li>The GPU within the M5 MacBook Pro has an OpenCL score of 76,601.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now, as far as the critical battery test is concerned, after 2.5 hours of continuous heavy testing on max screen brightness, the M5 MacBook Pro was left with a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wccftech.com\/intel-panther-lake-almost-matches-apples-m5-chip-in-an-elaborate-battery-test\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel Panther Lake Almost Matches Apple&#8217;s M5 Chip In An Elaborate Battery Test https:\/\/wccftech.com\/intel-panther-lake-almost-matches-apples-m5-chip-in-an-elaborate-battery-test\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.wccftech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Gemini_Generated_Image_usfrlqusfrlqusfr-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-214070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macintosh","tag-macbook-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214072,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214070\/revisions\/214072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}