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Intel Core i7-12700HL vs Apple M1

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 2 - 97 %

Intel Core i7-12700HL

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-12700HL

Rank 2 - 58 %

Apple M1

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

14C / 20T · 4.70 GHz

95 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

112 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

14C / 20T · 4.70 GHz

949 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

509 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

14C / 20T · 4.70 GHz

1,806 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,503 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

14C / 20T · 3.80 GHz

16,745 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,759 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

14C / 20T · 4.70 GHz

2,280

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

14C / 20T · 3.80 GHz

11,424

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

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

14C / 20T · 4.70 GHz

1,607

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

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

14C / 20T · 3.80 GHz

12,103

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Alder Lake)

2,146

Apple M1 (8 Core)

2,610

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

14C / 20T · 3.80 GHz

131

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

117

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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700HL	Apple M1
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 12000H (23)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Alder Lake H	M1
Technology	10 nm	5 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	BGA 1744
Predecessor
Successor		Apple M2

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700HL	Apple M1
CPU Cores / Threads	14 / 20	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	6x Golden Cove 2.30 - 4.70 GHz	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	8x Gracemont 1.70 - 3.50 GHz	4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	11.50 MB	16.00 MB
L3-Cache	24.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700HL	Apple M1
GPU name	Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Alder Lake)	Apple M1 (8 Core)
GPU frequency	0.40 - 1.40 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	96 / 768	128 / 1024
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	4	2
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	8 GB
Technology	10 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q1/2022	Q4/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700HL	Apple M1
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700HL	Apple M1
Memory	DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0 x 20	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700HL	Apple M1
TDP	45 W	18 W
TDP (PL2)	115 W
TDP up	60 W	20 W
TDP down	35 W	10 W
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700HL	Apple M1
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	macOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q3/2022	Q4/2020
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-12700HL is 4.5 stars (2 ratings), while Apple M1 has received 4.5 stars (775 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-12700HL
14C / 20T · 2.30 - 4.70 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★