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Intel Core i9-12900E vs Apple M4 (10-CPU)

Last updated: 2026-07-01

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 73 %

Intel Core i9-12900E

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4 (10-CPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i9-12900E

Rank 2 - 94 %

Apple M4 (10-CPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

16C / 24T · 5.00 GHz

2,611

10C / 10T · 4.46 GHz

3,810

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

16C / 24T · 4.00 GHz

13,107

10C / 10T · 0.91 GHz

14,934

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

16C / 24T · 5.00 GHz

1,952

10C / 10T · 4.46 GHz

2,491

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

16C / 24T · 4.00 GHz

13,420

10C / 10T · 0.91 GHz

12,509

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel UHD Graphics 770

794

Apple M4 (10 Core)

4,260

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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 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 i9-12900E	Apple M4 (10-CPU)
Family	Intel Core i9 (81)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 12000 (34)	Apple M4 (7)
Architecture	Alder Lake S	M4
Technology	10 nm	3 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1700
Predecessor		Apple M3
Successor	Intel Core i9-13900E	Apple M5 (10-CPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i9-12900E	Apple M4 (10-CPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	16 / 24	10 / 10
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	8x Golden Cove 2.30 - 5.00 GHz	4x Donan P-Core 0.91 - 4.46 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	8x Gracemont 1.70 - 3.80 GHz	6x Donan E-Core 0.90 - 2.89 GHz
L2-Cache	14.00 MB	20.00 MB
L3-Cache	30.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i9-12900E	Apple M4 (10-CPU)
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 770	Apple M4 (10 Core)
GPU frequency	0.30 - 1.55 GHz	0.34 - 1.58 GHz
CUs / Shader	32 / 256	160 / 1280
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	64 GB	24 GB
Technology	10 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q4/2021	Q2/2024

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i9-12900E	Apple M4 (10-CPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i9-12900E	Apple M4 (10-CPU)
Memory	DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 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 i9-12900E	Apple M4 (10-CPU)
TDP	65 W	25 W
TDP (PL2)	202 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i9-12900E	Apple M4 (10-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, AVX2+	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME
Release date	Q1/2022	Q2/2024
Release price	494 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i9-12900E is 3.0 stars (2 ratings), while Apple M4 (10-CPU) has received 4.7 stars (615 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i9-12900E
16C / 24T · 2.30 - 5.00 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M4 (10-CPU)
10C / 10T · 0.91 - 4.46 GHz

★★★★★