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Intel Core i7-12700T vs Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)

Last updated: 2026-07-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 95 %

Intel Core i7-12700T

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-12700T

Rank 2 - 92 %

Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

12C / 20T · 4.70 GHz

2,389

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,397

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

12C / 20T · 3.20 GHz

11,303

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

10,412

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

12C / 20T · 4.70 GHz

1,582

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,768

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

12C / 20T · 3.20 GHz

10,974

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

9,996

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel UHD Graphics 770

768

Apple M1 Pro (14 Core)

4,580

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

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

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700T	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 12000 (34)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Alder Lake S	M1
Technology	10 nm	5 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1700
Predecessor	Intel Core i7-11700T
Successor	Intel Core i7-13700T

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700T	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	12 / 20	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	8x Golden Cove 1.40 - 4.70 GHz	6x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Gracemont 1.00 - 3.40 GHz	2x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	12.00 MB	24.00 MB
L3-Cache	25.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700T	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 770	Apple M1 Pro (14 Core)
GPU frequency	0.30 - 1.50 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 256	224 / 1792
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	64 GB	32 GB
Technology	10 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q4/2021	Q3/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700T	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700T	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
Memory	DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	5.0 x 20	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700T	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
TDP	35 W	35 W
TDP (PL2)	99 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-12700T	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
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	Q1/2022	Q3/2021
Release price	339 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-12700T is 4.4 stars (14 ratings), while Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU) has received 4.9 stars (254 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-12700T
12C / 20T · 1.40 - 4.70 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★