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Intel Core i9-9900KF vs Apple M4

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 51 %

Intel Core i9-9900KF

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 82 %

Intel Core i9-9900KF

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M4

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

77 pts

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

175 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

640 pts

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

860 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

1,294 pts

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

2,125 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 16T · 4.70 GHz

12,812 pts

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

11,575 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

1,650

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

3,767

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 16T · 4.70 GHz

8,182

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

13,295

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

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

1,342

9C / 9T · 4.46 GHz

2,491

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

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 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 M4
Family	Intel Core i9 (81)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core i 9000 (34)	Apple M4 (7)
Architecture	Coffee Lake S Refresh	M4
Technology	14 nm	3 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1151-2
Predecessor		Apple M3
Successor	Intel Core i9-10900KF	Apple M5

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900KF	Apple M4
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 16	9 / 9
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	8x 3.60 - 5.00 GHz	3x Donan P-Core 0.91 - 4.46 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		6x Donan E-Core 0.90 - 2.85 GHz
L2-Cache		20.00 MB
L3-Cache	16.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900KF	Apple M4
GPU name	no iGPU	Apple M4 (10 Core)
GPU frequency		0.34 - 1.58 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	160 / 1280
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays		3
Max. GPU Memory		24 GB
Technology		3 nm
Release date		Q2/2024

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900KF	Apple M4
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 38 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900KF	Apple M4
Memory	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-7500 (120.0 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	8 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 i9-9900KF	Apple M4
TDP	95 W	20 W
TDP (PL2)	119 W @ 28 s
TDP up
TDP down		15 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i9-9900KF	Apple M4
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	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME
Release date	Q1/2019	Q2/2024
Release price	600 $
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 i9-9900KF is 4.3 stars (18 ratings), while Apple M4 has received 4.2 stars (1056 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

Apple M4
9C / 9T · 0.91 - 4.46 GHz

★★★★★