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Intel Core Ultra 7 265HX vs Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-07-03

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 Ultra 7 265HX

Rank 2 - 80 %

Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core Ultra 7 265HX

Rank 2 - 71 %

Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

20C / 20T · 5.30 GHz

2,998

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

2,397

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

20C / 20T · 2.60 GHz

17,410

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

12,439

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel Xe 4 Core Graphics 64 EUs (Arrow Lake)

1,890

Apple M1 Max (32 Core)

10,600

AI performance (NPU)

20C / 20T · 2.60 GHz

13.0 TOPS

10C / 10T · 0.60 GHz

11.0 TOPS

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

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 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 Ultra 7 265HX	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
Family	Intel Core Ultra 7 (31)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core Ultra 200HX (8)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Arrow Lake	M1
Technology	3 nm	5 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	BGA 2114
Predecessor
Successor		Apple M2 Max (38-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265HX	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	20 / 20	10 / 10
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	8x Lion Cove 2.60 - 5.30 GHz	8x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	12x Skymont 2.30 - 4.60 GHz	2x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	36.00 MB	28.00 MB
L3-Cache	30.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265HX	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
GPU name	Intel Xe 4 Core Graphics 64 EUs (Arrow Lake)	Apple M1 Max (32 Core)
GPU frequency	0.30 - 1.90 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	4 / 512	512 / 4096
Raytracing	✓	✗
Max. displays	3	5
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	32 GB
Technology	5 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2024	Q3/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265HX	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
AI hardware	Intel® AI Boost	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	Intel AI Boost NPU 4 @ 13 TOPS	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU	33 TOPS

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265HX	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
Memory	DDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (409.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	192 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	5.0 x 20	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265HX	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
TDP	55 W	45 W
TDP (PL2)	160 W
TDP up
TDP down	45 W
T. junction max.	105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265HX	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	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	Q1/2025	Q3/2021
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core Ultra 7 265HX is 3.7 stars (9 ratings), while Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) has received 4.8 stars (211 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core Ultra 7 265HX
20C / 20T · 2.60 - 5.30 GHz

★★★★★

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

★★★★★