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Intel Core i7-6850K vs Apple M1

Last updated: 2026-06-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 60 %

Intel Core i7-6850K

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 80 %

Intel Core i7-6850K

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 3.80 GHz

1,302

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 3.60 GHz

6,214

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

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

6C / 12T · 3.80 GHz

1,116

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

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

6C / 12T · 3.60 GHz

6,711

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 3.60 GHz

279.7 s

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

314.0 s

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

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 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 i7-6850K	Apple M1
Family	Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition (24)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 6000 (24)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Skylake S	M1
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 2011-3
Predecessor
Successor		Apple M2

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6850K	Apple M1
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 12	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	6x 3.60 - 3.80 GHz	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache		16.00 MB
L3-Cache	15.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6850K	Apple M1
GPU name	no iGPU	Apple M1 (8 Core)
GPU frequency		0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	128 / 1024
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays		2
Max. GPU Memory		8 GB
Technology		5 nm
Release date		Q4/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6850K	Apple M1
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6850K	Apple M1
Memory	DDR4-2400 (76.8 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	4	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 40	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6850K	Apple M1
TDP	140 W	18 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		20 W
TDP down		10 W
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-6850K	Apple M1
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	macOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q2/2016	Q4/2020
Release price	628 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-6850K is 4.8 stars (6 ratings), while Apple M1 has received 4.5 stars (767 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-6850K
6C / 12T · 3.60 - 3.80 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★