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Apple M4 vs Intel Core i9-11950H

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 M4

Rank 2 - 66 %

Intel Core i9-11950H

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4

Rank 2 - 93 %

Intel Core i9-11950H

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

2,125 pts

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

1,574 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

11,575 pts

8C / 16T · 3.70 GHz

12,836 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

3,767

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

2,129

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

13,295

8C / 16T · 3.70 GHz

9,535

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

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

2,491

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

1,645

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M4 (10 Core)

4,260

Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (32 EU)

742

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

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i9-11950H
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i9 (81)
CPU group	Apple M4 (7)	Intel Core i 11000H (17)
Architecture	M4	Tiger Lake H
Technology	3 nm	10 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket		BGA 1787
Predecessor	Apple M3
Successor	Apple M5

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i9-11950H
CPU Cores / Threads	9 / 9	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	3x Donan P-Core 0.91 - 4.46 GHz	8x 2.60 - 5.00 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	6x Donan E-Core 0.90 - 2.85 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB
L3-Cache		24.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i9-11950H
GPU name	Apple M4 (10 Core)	Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (32 EU)
GPU frequency	0.34 - 1.58 GHz	0.35 - 1.45 GHz
CUs / Shader	160 / 1280	32 / 256
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	64 GB
Technology	3 nm	10 nm
Release date	Q2/2024	Q2/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i9-11950H
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i9-11950H
Memory	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s)	DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i9-11950H
TDP	20 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down	15 W	35 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core i9-11950H
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
Release date	Q2/2024	Q2/2021
Release price		556 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M4 is 4.2 stars (1067 ratings), while Intel Core i9-11950H has received 4.0 stars (12 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M4
9C / 9T · 0.91 - 4.46 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i9-11950H
8C / 16T · 2.60 - 5.00 GHz

★★★★★