Apple M1 vs Intel Core i9-9900K

With the Apple M1 and the Intel Core i9-9900K, two completely different processors are compared here.

The Apple M1 is an eight-core processor based on a hybrid architecture (big.LITTLE), which means that it has 4 powerful and 4 less powerful, but more efficient processor cores. The Intel Core i9-9900K, on ​​the other hand, is based on a standard architecture with 8 processor cores.

In contrast to the Intel Core i9-9900K, the Apple M1 does not support hyperthreading and cannot be overclocked. In addition, the Apple M1 can only be bought permanently installed in Apple devices, whereas the Intel Core i9-9900K can be used on any motherboard with the LGA1151-2 socket.

In the Geekbench benchmark, the Apple M1 is almost 20% ahead of the Intel Core i9-9900K in single-core load, but then has to admit defeat in multi-core load, here the Intel processor is almost 15% ahead of the competition from Apple. There is a huge difference in the internal graphics unit of the two processors.

The Apple M1 is much better equipped here. The iGPU of the Apple M1, like the processor itself, is manufactured using the 5 nanometer process and has 128 execution units. This means that the processor is able to supply up to 3 monitors with one image. The Intel UHD Graphics 630 is built into the Intel Core i9-9900K as an iGPU.

This is still manufactured using the 14 nanometer process and has 24 execution units. If you look at the FP32 computing power with simple accuracy, you can see the clear lead of the Apple iGPU. With 2600 GFLOPS, the graphics unit of the Apple M1 is significantly higher than that of the Intel Core i9-9900K, which only has 461 GFLOPS.

When it comes to working memory, modules of the type LPDDR4X-4266 are used in the Apple M1 and modules of the type DDR4-2666 in the Intel Core i9-9900K.