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Intel Core i7-9700F vs Apple M4 (8-CPU)

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 - 45 %

Intel Core i7-9700F

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 (8-CPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 73 %

Intel Core i7-9700F

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 (8-CPU)

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

68 pts

8C / 8T · 4.46 GHz

175 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

467 pts

8C / 8T · 4.46 GHz

742 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

1,181 pts

8C / 8T · 4.46 GHz

2,125 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

8,540 pts

8C / 8T · 0.91 GHz

9,980 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

1,570

8C / 8T · 4.46 GHz

3,767

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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Monero Hashrate
94 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 9000 (34)	Apple M4 (7)
Architecture	Coffee Lake S Refresh	M4
Technology	14 nm	3 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1151-2
Predecessor		Apple M3
Successor	Intel Core i7-10700F

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	8x 3.00 - 4.70 GHz	4x Donan P-Core 0.91 - 4.46 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Donan E-Core 0.90 - 2.85 GHz
L2-Cache		20.00 MB
L3-Cache	12.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
GPU name	no iGPU	Apple M4 (8 Core)
GPU frequency		0.34 - 1.58 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	128 / 1024
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays		3
Max. GPU Memory		24 GB
Technology		3 nm
Release date		Q4/2024

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
Memory	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	24 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
TDP	65 W	18 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		5 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	Apple M4 (8-CPU)
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME
Release date	Q2/2019	Q4/2024
Release price	520 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-9700F is 4.3 stars (16 ratings), while Apple M4 (8-CPU) has received 4.9 stars (189 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-9700F
8C / 8T · 3.00 - 4.70 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M4 (8-CPU)
8C / 8T · 0.91 - 4.46 GHz

★★★★★