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Apple M1 vs Intel Core i5-9400

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Rank 2 - 62 %

Intel Core i5-9400

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Rank 2 - 64 %

Intel Core i5-9400

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,503 pts

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,005 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,759 pts

6C / 6T · 3.90 GHz

5,341 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,346

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

6C / 6T · 3.90 GHz

5,164

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,085

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

6C / 6T · 3.90 GHz

4,722

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 (8 Core)

2,610

Intel UHD Graphics 630

403

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

117

6C / 6T · 3.90 GHz

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

314.0 s

6C / 6T · 3.90 GHz

378.1 s

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-9400
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Apple M1 (9)	Intel Core i 9000 (34)
Architecture	M1	Coffee Lake S Refresh
Technology	5 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1151-2
Predecessor		Intel Core i5-8400
Successor	Apple M2	Intel Core i5-10400

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-9400
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz	6x 2.90 - 4.10 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB
L3-Cache		9.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-9400
GPU name	Apple M1 (8 Core)	Intel UHD Graphics 630
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	0.35 - 1.05 GHz
CUs / Shader	128 / 1024	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	64 GB
Technology	5 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q4/2020	Q4/2017

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-9400
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-9400
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth		15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-9400
TDP	18 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	20 W
TDP down	10 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i5-9400
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q4/2020	Q2/2019
Release price		220 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M1 is 4.5 stars (772 ratings), while Intel Core i5-9400 has received 3.8 stars (41 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M1
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-9400
6C / 6T · 2.90 - 4.10 GHz

★★★★★