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Apple M3 vs Intel Core i7-9750HF

Last updated: 2026-07-04

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 - 50 %

Intel Core i7-9750HF

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3

Rank 2 - 56 %

Intel Core i7-9750HF

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

557 pts

6C / 12T · 4.50 GHz

292 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

2,672 pts

6C / 12T · 4.50 GHz

1,729 pts

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

137 pts

6C / 12T · 4.50 GHz

64 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

659 pts

6C / 12T · 4.50 GHz

397 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

1,965 pts

6C / 12T · 4.50 GHz

1,113 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,437 pts

6C / 12T · 3.20 GHz

6,912 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

3,125

6C / 12T · 4.50 GHz

1,354

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

11,863

6C / 12T · 3.20 GHz

5,679

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

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

2,150

6C / 12T · 4.50 GHz

1,132

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

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,450

6C / 12T · 3.20 GHz

5,149

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 (MC)
751 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 M3	Intel Core i7-9750HF
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Apple M3 (6)	Intel Core i 9000H (11)
Architecture	M3	Coffee Lake H Refresh
Technology	3 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket		BGA 1440
Predecessor	Apple M2
Successor	Apple M4

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M3	Intel Core i7-9750HF
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 2.60 - 4.50 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 i7-9750HF
GPU name	Apple M3 (10 Core)	no iGPU
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	160 / 1280	/
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	2
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB
Technology	3 nm
Release date	Q4/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M3	Intel Core i7-9750HF
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M3	Intel Core i7-9750HF
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 i7-9750HF
TDP	22 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down	15 W	35 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M3	Intel Core i7-9750HF
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	Q2/2019
Release price		390 $
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 (1645 ratings), while Intel Core i7-9750HF has received 5.0 stars (3 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M3
8C / 8T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-9750HF
6C / 12T · 2.60 - 4.50 GHz

★★★★★