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Apple M1 vs Intel Core i9-11900H

Last updated: 2026-07-05

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 - 93 %

Intel Core i9-11900H

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 78 %

Apple M1

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i9-11900H

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,503 pts

8C / 16T · 4.90 GHz

1,540 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,759 pts

8C / 16T · 3.60 GHz

12,345 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

8C / 16T · 4.90 GHz

2,040

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

8C / 16T · 3.60 GHz

8,451

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

8C / 16T · 4.90 GHz

1,599

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

8C / 16T · 3.60 GHz

9,436

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 (8 Core)

2,610

Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (32 EU)

742

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

117

8C / 16T · 3.60 GHz

184

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

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 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 i9-11900H
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i9 (81)
CPU group	Apple M1 (9)	Intel Core i 11000H (17)
Architecture	M1	Tiger Lake H
Technology	5 nm	10 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket		BGA 1787
Predecessor
Successor	Apple M2	Intel Core i9-12900H

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i9-11900H
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz	8x 2.50 - 4.90 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB
L3-Cache		24.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i9-11900H
GPU name	Apple M1 (8 Core)	Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (32 EU)
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	0.35 - 1.45 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	Q2/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i9-11900H
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i9-11900H
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i9-11900H
TDP	18 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	20 W
TDP down	10 W	35 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1	Intel Core i9-11900H
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, AVX-512
Release date	Q4/2020	Q2/2021
Release price		546 $
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 (786 ratings), while Intel Core i9-11900H has received 3.9 stars (18 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M1
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i9-11900H
8C / 16T · 2.50 - 4.90 GHz

★★★★★