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Intel Core i9-12900H vs Apple M1 Max (24-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 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i9-12900H

Rank 2 - 93 %

Apple M1 Max (24-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i9-12900H

Rank 2 - 90 %

Apple M1 Max (24-GPU)

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

14C / 20T · 5.00 GHz

1,917 pts

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

1,534 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

14C / 20T · 3.80 GHz

16,555 pts

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

12,402 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

14C / 20T · 5.00 GHz

2,426

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

2,397

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

14C / 20T · 3.80 GHz

11,894

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

12,439

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

14C / 20T · 5.00 GHz

1,754

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

1,783

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

14C / 20T · 3.80 GHz

12,662

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

12,693

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Alder Lake)

2,223

Apple M1 Max (24 Core)

7,830

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

14C / 20T · 3.80 GHz

251

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

192

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

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

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 i9-12900H	Apple M1 Max (24-GPU)
Family	Intel Core i9 (81)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 12000H (23)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Alder Lake H	M1
Technology	10 nm	5 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	BGA 1744
Predecessor	Intel Core i9-11900H
Successor	Intel Core i9-13900H	Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i9-12900H	Apple M1 Max (24-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	14 / 20	10 / 10
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	6x Golden Cove 2.50 - 5.00 GHz	8x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	8x Gracemont 1.80 - 3.80 GHz	2x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	11.50 MB	28.00 MB
L3-Cache	24.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i9-12900H	Apple M1 Max (24-GPU)
GPU name	Intel Iris Xe Graphics 96 (Alder Lake)	Apple M1 Max (24 Core)
GPU frequency	0.40 - 1.45 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	96 / 768	384 / 3072
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	4	5
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	32 GB
Technology	10 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q1/2022	Q3/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i9-12900H	Apple M1 Max (24-GPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i9-12900H	Apple M1 Max (24-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR5-5200 (83.2 GB/s) DDR5-4800 (76.8 GB/s) LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (409.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0 x 28	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	55.1 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i9-12900H	Apple M1 Max (24-GPU)
TDP	45 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)	115 W
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i9-12900H	Apple M1 Max (24-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, AVX2+	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q1/2022	Q3/2021
Release price	617 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i9-12900H is 4.3 stars (54 ratings), while Apple M1 Max (24-GPU) has received 4.8 stars (153 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i9-12900H
14C / 20T · 2.50 - 5.00 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1 Max (24-GPU)
10C / 10T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★