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Intel Core i9-10900K vs Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 80 %

Intel Core i9-10900K

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i9-10900K

Rank 2 - 65 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

10C / 20T · 5.30 GHz

80 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

112 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

10C / 20T · 5.30 GHz

936 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

509 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

10C / 20T · 5.30 GHz

1,382 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,503 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

10C / 20T · 4.90 GHz

15,945 pts

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,759 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

10C / 20T · 5.30 GHz

1,743

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

10C / 20T · 4.90 GHz

8,990

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

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

10C / 20T · 5.30 GHz

1,417

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

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

10C / 20T · 4.90 GHz

11,344

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel UHD Graphics 630

461

Apple M1 (7 Core)

2,290

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

10C / 20T · 4.90 GHz

240

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

117

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
Multi-core performance

10C / 20T · 4.90 GHz

126.0 s

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

314.0 s

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

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 i9-10900K	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Family	Intel Core i9 (81)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 10000 (43)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Comet Lake S	M1
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1200
Predecessor	Intel Core i9-9900K
Successor	Intel Core i9-11900K

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i9-10900K	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	10 / 20	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	10x 3.70 - 5.30 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	20.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i9-10900K	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 630	Apple M1 (7 Core)
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.20 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	112 / 896
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	64 GB	8 GB
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q4/2017	Q4/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i9-10900K	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i9-10900K	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
Memory	DDR4-2933 (46.9 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	16 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 i9-10900K	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
TDP	125 W	18 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		25 W
TDP down	95 W	10 W
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i9-10900K	Apple M1 (7-GPU)
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	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q2/2020	Q4/2020
Release price	490 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i9-10900K is 4.2 stars (35 ratings), while Apple M1 (7-GPU) has received 4.7 stars (70 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i9-10900K
10C / 20T · 3.70 - 5.30 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★