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Apple M4 (10-CPU) vs Intel Core i7-6900K

Last updated: 2026-06-04

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 M4 (10-CPU)

Rank 2 - 43 %

Intel Core i7-6900K

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 (10-CPU)

Rank 2 - 63 %

Intel Core i7-6900K

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

10C / 10T · 4.46 GHz

653 pts

8C / 16T · 3.70 GHz

274 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

10C / 10T · 4.46 GHz

3,908 pts

8C / 16T · 3.70 GHz

2,680 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

10C / 10T · 4.46 GHz

2,161 pts

8C / 16T · 3.70 GHz

1,151 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

10C / 10T · 0.91 GHz

13,682 pts

8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz

11,326 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

10C / 10T · 4.46 GHz

3,810

8C / 16T · 3.70 GHz

1,254

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

10C / 10T · 0.91 GHz

14,934

8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz

7,471

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

10C / 10T · 4.46 GHz

2,491

8C / 16T · 3.70 GHz

1,086

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

10C / 10T · 0.91 GHz

12,509

8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz

7,651

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

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 (10-CPU)	Intel Core i7-6900K
Family	Apple M series (38)	Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition (24)
CPU group	Apple M4 (7)	Intel Core i 6000 (24)
Architecture	M4	Skylake S
Technology	3 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket		LGA 2011-3
Predecessor	Apple M3
Successor	Apple M5 (10-CPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M4 (10-CPU)	Intel Core i7-6900K
CPU Cores / Threads	10 / 10	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	normal
Core Cluster 1:	4x Donan P-Core 0.91 - 4.46 GHz	8x 3.20 - 3.70 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	6x Donan E-Core 0.90 - 2.89 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB
L3-Cache		20.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M4 (10-CPU)	Intel Core i7-6900K
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 (10-CPU)	Intel Core i7-6900K
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M4 (10-CPU)	Intel Core i7-6900K
Memory	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s)	DDR4-2400 (76.8 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	3.0 x 40
PCIe Bandwidth		39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M4 (10-CPU)	Intel Core i7-6900K
TDP	25 W	140 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M4 (10-CPU)	Intel Core i7-6900K
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	Windows 10, 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	Q2/2016
Release price
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 (10-CPU) is 4.7 stars (613 ratings), while Intel Core i7-6900K has received 4.4 stars (8 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M4 (10-CPU)
10C / 10T · 0.91 - 4.46 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-6900K
8C / 16T · 3.20 - 3.70 GHz

★★★★★