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Apple M3 vs Intel Core i7-8086K

Last updated: 2026-06-05

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 M3

Rank 2 - 63 %

Intel Core i7-8086K

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3

Rank 2 - 77 %

Intel Core i7-8086K

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

557 pts

6C / 12T · 5.00 GHz

350 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

2,672 pts

6C / 12T · 5.00 GHz

2,660 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

1,965 pts

6C / 12T · 5.00 GHz

1,321 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,437 pts

6C / 12T · 4.30 GHz

10,209 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

3,125

6C / 12T · 5.00 GHz

1,775

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

11,863

6C / 12T · 4.30 GHz

7,892

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

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

2,150

6C / 12T · 5.00 GHz

1,380

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

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,450

6C / 12T · 4.30 GHz

7,031

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M3 (10 Core)

3,550

Intel UHD Graphics 630

461

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

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 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 M3	Intel Core i7-8086K
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Apple M3 (6)	Intel Core i 8000 (20)
Architecture	M3	Coffee Lake S
Technology	3 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1151-2
Predecessor	Apple M2
Successor	Apple M4

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M3	Intel Core i7-8086K
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	6 / 12
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Ibiza P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz	6x 4.00 - 5.00 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Ibiza E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB
L3-Cache		12.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M3	Intel Core i7-8086K
GPU name	Apple M3 (10 Core)	Intel UHD Graphics 630
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.40 GHz	0.35 - 1.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	160 / 1280	24 / 192
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	64 GB
Technology	3 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q4/2023	Q4/2017

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M3	Intel Core i7-8086K
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M3	Intel Core i7-8086K
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)
Max. Memory	24 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 M3	Intel Core i7-8086K
TDP	22 W	95 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down	15 W
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M3	Intel Core i7-8086K
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q4/2023	Q2/2018
Release price		410 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M3 is 4.6 stars (1638 ratings), while Intel Core i7-8086K has received 5.0 stars (14 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M3
8C / 8T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-8086K
6C / 12T · 4.00 - 5.00 GHz

★★★★★