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Intel Core i9-7980XE vs Apple A19 Pro

Last updated: 2026-07-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 36 %

Intel Core i9-7980XE

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple A19 Pro

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i9-7980XE

Rank 2 - 86 %

Apple A19 Pro

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

18C / 36T · 4.20 GHz

1,394

6C / 6T · 4.26 GHz

3,907

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

18C / 36T · 3.50 GHz

11,708

6C / 6T · 4.26 GHz

10,074

More benchmarks

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

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 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

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i9-7980XE	Apple A19 Pro
Family	Intel Core i9 (81)	Apple A series (27)
CPU group	Intel Core i 7000X (9)	Apple A19 (2)
Architecture	Skylake X
Technology	14 nm	3 nm
Segment	Desktop	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	LGA 2066
Predecessor		Apple A18 Pro
Successor	Intel Core i9-9980XE

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i9-7980XE	Apple A19 Pro
CPU Cores / Threads	18 / 36	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	18x 2.60 - 4.20 GHz	2x P-Core 0.70 - 4.26 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x E-Core 0.74 - 2.50 GHz
L2-Cache		6.00 MB
L3-Cache	25.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i9-7980XE	Apple A19 Pro
GPU name	no iGPU	Apple A19 Pro (6 GPU Cores)
GPU frequency		0.39 - 2.00 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	24 / 768
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays		1
Max. GPU Memory		12 GB
Technology		3 nm
Release date		Q3/2025

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i9-7980XE	Apple A19 Pro
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ ? TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i9-7980XE	Apple A19 Pro
Memory	DDR4-2666 (85.4 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-8533 (68.3 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	12 GB
Memory channels	4	1
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 44
PCIe Bandwidth	43.3 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i9-7980XE	Apple A19 Pro
TDP	165 W	12 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i9-7980XE	Apple A19 Pro
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	iOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
Release date	Q4/2017	Q3/2025
Release price	1999 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i9-7980XE is 4.6 stars (11 ratings), while Apple A19 Pro has received 4.2 stars (159 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i9-7980XE
18C / 36T · 2.60 - 4.20 GHz

★★★★★

Apple A19 Pro
6C / 6T · 0.70 - 4.26 GHz

★★★★★