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Apple M4 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 265F

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 - 88 %

Intel Core Ultra 7 265F

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 54 %

Apple M4

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core Ultra 7 265F

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

175 pts

20C / 20T · 5.30 GHz

136 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

860 pts

20C / 20T · 5.30 GHz

1,409 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

2,125 pts

20C / 20T · 5.30 GHz

2,202 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

11,575 pts

20C / 20T · 4.60 GHz

25,459 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

3,767

20C / 20T · 5.30 GHz

3,115

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

13,295

20C / 20T · 4.60 GHz

20,735

AI performance (NPU)

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

38.0 TOPS

20C / 20T · 2.40 GHz

13.0 TOPS

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

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core Ultra 7 (31)
CPU group	Apple M4 (7)	Intel Core Ultra 200 AL-S (20)
Architecture	M4	Arrow Lake
Technology	3 nm	3 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket		LGA 1851
Predecessor	Apple M3
Successor	Apple M5

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
CPU Cores / Threads	9 / 9	20 / 20
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	3x Donan P-Core 0.91 - 4.46 GHz	8x Lion Cove 2.40 - 5.30 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	6x Donan E-Core 0.90 - 2.85 GHz	12x Skymont 1.80 - 4.60 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	36.00 MB
L3-Cache		33.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
GPU name	Apple M4 (10 Core)	no iGPU
GPU frequency	0.34 - 1.58 GHz
CUs / Shader	160 / 1280	/
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	3
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB
Technology	3 nm
Release date	Q2/2024

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Intel® AI Boost
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS	Intel AI Boost NPU 4 @ 13 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
Memory	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s)	DDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	256 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	4.0	5.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
TDP	20 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)		182 W
TDP up
TDP down	15 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M4	Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	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
Release date	Q2/2024	Q1/2025
Release price		369 $
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 (1060 ratings), while Intel Core Ultra 7 265F has received 3.9 stars (34 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M4
9C / 9T · 0.91 - 4.46 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core Ultra 7 265F
20C / 20T · 2.40 - 5.30 GHz

★★★★★