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Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) vs Intel Core i7-7700K

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 - 69 %

Intel Core i7-7700K

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)

Rank 2 - 43 %

Intel Core i7-7700K

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

438 pts

4C / 8T · 4.50 GHz

310 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

3,135 pts

4C / 8T · 4.50 GHz

1,522 pts

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

112 pts

4C / 8T · 4.50 GHz

75 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

796 pts

4C / 8T · 4.50 GHz

355 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

1,534 pts

4C / 8T · 4.50 GHz

1,216 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

12,402 pts

4C / 8T · 4.40 GHz

6,055 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

2,397

4C / 8T · 4.50 GHz

1,463

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

12,439

4C / 8T · 4.40 GHz

5,149

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

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

1,783

4C / 8T · 4.50 GHz

1,229

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

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

12,693

4C / 8T · 4.40 GHz

4,719

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 Max (32 Core)

10,600

Intel HD Graphics 630

442

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

192

4C / 8T · 4.40 GHz

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 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 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 i7-7700K
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Apple M1 (9)	Intel Core i 7000 (17)
Architecture	M1	Kaby Lake S
Technology	5 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1151
Predecessor		Intel Core i7-6700K
Successor	Apple M2 Max (38-GPU)	Intel Core i7-8700K

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)	Intel Core i7-7700K
CPU Cores / Threads	10 / 10	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	8x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz	4x 4.20 - 4.50 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	2x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	28.00 MB
L3-Cache		8.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)	Intel Core i7-7700K
GPU name	Apple M1 Max (32 Core)	Intel HD Graphics 630
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	0.35 - 1.15 GHz
CUs / Shader	512 / 4096	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	5	3
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	64 GB
Technology	5 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q3/2021	Q2/2016

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)	Intel Core i7-7700K
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 i7-7700K
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (409.6 GB/s)	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s) DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	4	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth		15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)	Intel Core i7-7700K
TDP	45 W	91 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)	Intel Core i7-7700K
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS	Windows 10, 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	Q1/2017
Release price		350 $
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 i7-7700K has received 4.1 stars (112 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 i7-7700K
4C / 8T · 4.20 - 4.50 GHz

★★★★★