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Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) vs Intel Core i7-1280P

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 Max (32-GPU)

Rank 2 - 91 %

Intel Core i7-1280P

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)

Rank 2 - 83 %

Intel Core i7-1280P

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

112 pts

14C / 20T · 4.80 GHz

77 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

796 pts

14C / 20T · 4.80 GHz

437 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

1,534 pts

14C / 20T · 4.80 GHz

1,848 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

12,402 pts

14C / 20T · 3.00 GHz

13,549 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

2,397

14C / 20T · 4.80 GHz

2,167

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

12,439

14C / 20T · 3.00 GHz

9,827

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

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

1,783

14C / 20T · 4.80 GHz

1,587

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

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

12,693

14C / 20T · 3.00 GHz

10,126

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 Max (32 Core)

10,600

Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Alder Lake)

2,223

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

192

14C / 20T · 3.00 GHz

206

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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 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 Max (32-GPU)	Intel Core i7-1280P
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i7 (300)
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	Apple M2 Max (38-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)	Intel Core i7-1280P
CPU Cores / Threads	10 / 10	14 / 20
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	8x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz	6x Golden Cove 1.80 - 4.80 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	2x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz	8x Gracemont 1.30 - 3.60 GHz
L2-Cache	28.00 MB	11.50 MB
L3-Cache		24.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)	Intel Core i7-1280P
GPU name	Apple M1 Max (32 Core)	Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Alder Lake)
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	0.40 - 1.45 GHz
CUs / Shader	512 / 4096	96 / 768
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	5	4
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	32 GB
Technology	5 nm	10 nm
Release date	Q3/2021	Q1/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)	Intel Core i7-1280P
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)	Intel Core i7-1280P
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (409.6 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	64 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	4	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	4.0 x 28
PCIe Bandwidth		55.1 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)	Intel Core i7-1280P
TDP	45 W	28 W
TDP (PL2)		64 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)	Intel Core i7-1280P
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	Q3/2021	Q1/2022
Release price
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) is 4.8 stars (208 ratings), while Intel Core i7-1280P has received 4.1 stars (20 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
10C / 10T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-1280P
14C / 20T · 1.80 - 4.80 GHz

★★★★★