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Intel Core i9-9900KF vs Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)

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 - 74 %

Intel Core i9-9900KF

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 80 %

Intel Core i9-9900KF

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

328 pts

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

438 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

2,996 pts

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

3,135 pts

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

77 pts

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

112 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

640 pts

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

796 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

1,294 pts

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

1,534 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 16T · 4.70 GHz

12,812 pts

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

12,402 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

1,650

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

2,397

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 16T · 4.70 GHz

8,182

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

12,439

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

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

1,342

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

1,783

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

8C / 16T · 4.70 GHz

8,779

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

12,693

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
Multi-core performance

8C / 16T · 4.70 GHz

171

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

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

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900KF	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
Family	Intel Core i9 (81)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 9000 (34)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Coffee Lake S Refresh	M1
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1151-2
Predecessor
Successor	Intel Core i9-10900KF	Apple M2 Max (38-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900KF	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 16	10 / 10
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	8x 3.60 - 5.00 GHz	8x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		2x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache		28.00 MB
L3-Cache	16.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900KF	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
GPU name	no iGPU	Apple M1 Max (32 Core)
GPU frequency		0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	512 / 4096
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays		5
Max. GPU Memory		32 GB
Technology		5 nm
Release date		Q3/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900KF	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900KF	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
Memory	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (409.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900KF	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
TDP	95 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)	119 W @ 28 s
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900KF	Apple M1 Max (32-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	Q1/2019	Q3/2021
Release price	600 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

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Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i9-9900KF
8C / 16T · 3.60 - 5.00 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
10C / 10T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★