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Apple M1 (7-GPU) vs Intel Core i3-1210U

Last updated: 2026-06-02

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 (7-GPU)

Rank 2 - 88 %

Intel Core i3-1210U

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Rank 2 - 58 %

Intel Core i3-1210U

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

6C / 8T · 4.40 GHz

2,040

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

6C / 8T · 1.60 GHz

3,765

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

6C / 8T · 4.40 GHz

1,575

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

6C / 8T · 1.60 GHz

4,322

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 (7 Core)

2,290

Intel Iris Xe Graphics 64 (Alder Lake)

843

More benchmarks

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 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i3-1210U
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i3 (205)
CPU group	Apple M1 (9)	Intel Core i 1200P/1200U (21)
Architecture	M1	Alder Lake U
Technology	5 nm	10 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket		BGA 1744
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i3-1210U
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	6 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz	2x Golden Cove 1.00 - 4.40 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz	4x Gracemont 0.70 - 3.30 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB	4.50 MB
L3-Cache		10.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i3-1210U
GPU name	Apple M1 (7 Core)	Intel Iris Xe Graphics 64 (Alder Lake)
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	0.25 - 0.85 GHz
CUs / Shader	112 / 896	64 / 512
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	4
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	32 GB
Technology	5 nm	10 nm
Release date	Q4/2020	Q1/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i3-1210U
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i3-1210U
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5-5200 (83.2 GB/s) DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s) LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	4.0 x 28
PCIe Bandwidth		55.1 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i3-1210U
TDP	18 W	9 W
TDP (PL2)		29 W
TDP up	25 W
TDP down	10 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i3-1210U
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	Q1/2022
Release price
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User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M1 (7-GPU) is 4.7 stars (70 ratings), while Intel Core i3-1210U has received 5.0 stars (1 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i3-1210U
6C / 8T · 1.00 - 4.40 GHz

★★★★★