Intel Core i7-10750H vs Apple M1

If you compare the Intel Core i7-10750H with the Apple M1, the first thing you notice is that the core architecture is completely different.

The Intel Core i7-10750H is a conventional processor with 6 cores of the same size, whereas the Apple M1 has a so-called hybrid architecture (big.LITTLE), in which the 8 cores are divided into 4 powerful and 4 energy-saving cores. As a result, the Apple M1 only uses the energy-saving cores for simple tasks and thus consumes significantly less electricity.

The Intel Core i7-10750H was released in the second quarter of 2020 and is based on the Comet Lake architecture manufactured using the 14 nanometer process. The Apple M1, on the other hand, was released in the fourth quarter of 2020 and is already manufactured using the 5 nanometer process. That is another reason why the Apple M1 is much more energy efficient than the comparison processor, the Intel Core i7-10750H.

The TDP of the Intel Core i7-10750H with 45W is three times as high as that of the Apple M1, where it is only 15 watts. If you now also look at the benchmarks of the processors, you can see that the Intel Core i7-10750H also lags behind the Apple M1 here. Depending on the benchmark, the single-core performance of the Intel Core i7-10750H is 20-30% behind the Apple M1.

In the multi-core performance, the lead of the Apple M1 then shrinks to 5-20%. However, there is a clear difference in performance when it comes to graphics performance. The Intel UHD Graphics 630 graphics integrated in the Intel Core i7-10750H clocks at up to 1.15 gigahertz and has an FP32 processing power of 442 GigaFLOPS.

The graphics integrated in the Apple M1, on the other hand, clocks at up to 3.20 gigahertz and here the FP32 computing power is more than five times as high with 2600 GigaFLOPS.