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Intel Core i7-8700 vs Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-07-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 59 %

Intel Core i7-8700

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 25 %

Intel Core i7-8700

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU)

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.60 GHz

69 pts

24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz

126 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.60 GHz

365 pts

24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz

1,918 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.60 GHz

1,146 pts

24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz

1,695 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.30 GHz

7,969 pts

24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz

28,570 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.60 GHz

1,459

24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz

2,689

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.30 GHz

6,027

24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz

21,450

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

6C / 12T · 4.60 GHz

1,172

24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz

1,940

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

6C / 12T · 4.30 GHz

5,891

24C / 24T · 3.50 GHz

27,860

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel UHD Graphics 630

442

Apple M2 Ultra (60 Core)

21,300

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

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

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700	Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU)
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 8000 (20)	Apple M2 (8)
Architecture	Coffee Lake S	M2
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1151-2
Predecessor	Intel Core i7-7700	Apple M1 Ultra (48-GPU)
Successor	Intel Core i7-9700	Apple M3 Ultra (28-CPU 60-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700	Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 12	24 / 24
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	6x 3.20 - 4.60 GHz	16x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		8x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
L2-Cache		72.00 MB
L3-Cache	12.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700	Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU)
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 630	Apple M2 Ultra (60 Core)
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.15 GHz	0.45 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	960 / 7680
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	8
Max. GPU Memory	64 GB	192 GB
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q4/2017	Q2/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700	Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		32 Neural cores @ 31.6 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700	Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU)
Memory	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (819.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	192 GB
Memory channels	2	8
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16	4.0 x 64
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s	126.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700	Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU)
TDP	65 W	80 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700	Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU)
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q4/2017	Q2/2023
Release price	340 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

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Intel Core i7-8700
6C / 12T · 3.20 - 4.60 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M2 Ultra (60-GPU)
24C / 24T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★