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Apple M1 (7-GPU) vs Intel Core i7-10700K

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 (7-GPU)

Rank 2 - 75 %

Intel Core i7-10700K

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 80 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-10700K

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

112 pts

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

74 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

509 pts

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

618 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,503 pts

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

1,309 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,759 pts

8C / 16T · 4.90 GHz

12,678 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

1,636

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

8C / 16T · 4.90 GHz

8,629

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

8C / 16T · 5.10 GHz

1,347

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

8C / 16T · 4.90 GHz

9,268

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 (7 Core)

2,290

Intel UHD Graphics 630

461

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

117

8C / 16T · 4.90 GHz

192

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

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

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

Monero Hashrate
94 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i7-10700K
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Apple M1 (9)	Intel Core i 10000 (43)
Architecture	M1	Comet Lake S
Technology	5 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1200
Predecessor		Intel Core i7-9700K
Successor		Intel Core i7-11700K

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i7-10700K
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 3.80 - 5.10 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB
L3-Cache		16.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i7-10700K
GPU name	Apple M1 (7 Core)	Intel UHD Graphics 630
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	0.35 - 1.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	112 / 896	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 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i7-10700K
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i7-10700K
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	DDR4-2933 (46.9 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 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i7-10700K
TDP	18 W	125 W
TDP (PL2)		229 W @ 56 s
TDP up	25 W
TDP down	10 W	95 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Intel Core i7-10700K
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	Q2/2020
Release price		374 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

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 (72 ratings), while Intel Core i7-10700K has received 4.3 stars (39 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-10700K
8C / 16T · 3.80 - 5.10 GHz

★★★★★