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Apple M1 vs Intel Core i7-12700E

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 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-12700E

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 67 %

Apple M1

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-12700E

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

12C / 20T · 4.80 GHz

2,459

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

12C / 20T · 4.00 GHz

11,321

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

12C / 20T · 4.80 GHz

1,665

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

12C / 20T · 4.00 GHz

10,170

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 (8 Core)

2,610

Intel UHD Graphics 770

768

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

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i7-12700E
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Apple M1 (9)	Intel Core i 12000 (34)
Architecture	M1	Alder Lake S
Technology	5 nm	10 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1700
Predecessor
Successor	Apple M2	Intel Core i7-13700E

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i7-12700E
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	12 / 20
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz	8x Golden Cove 2.10 - 4.80 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz	4x Gracemont 1.60 - 3.60 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB	12.00 MB
L3-Cache		25.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i7-12700E
GPU name	Apple M1 (8 Core)	Intel UHD Graphics 770
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	0.30 - 1.50 GHz
CUs / Shader	128 / 1024	32 / 256
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	64 GB
Technology	5 nm	10 nm
Release date	Q4/2020	Q4/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i7-12700E
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i7-12700E
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	4.0	5.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i7-12700E
TDP	18 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)		180 W
TDP up	20 W
TDP down	10 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i7-12700E
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, AVX2+
Release date	Q4/2020	Q1/2022
Release price		344 $
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 i7-12700E has received 4.7 stars (3 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M1
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-12700E
12C / 20T · 2.10 - 4.80 GHz

★★★★★