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Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF vs Apple M3 (8-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-07

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 265KF

Rank 2 - 94 %

Apple M3 (8-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF

Rank 2 - 39 %

Apple M3 (8-GPU)

Cinebench 2026 Single-Thread
Single-core performance

20C / 20T · 5.50 GHz

559 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

557 pts

Cinebench 2026 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

20C / 20T · 5.50 GHz

8,188 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

2,672 pts

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

20C / 20T · 5.50 GHz

139 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

137 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

20C / 20T · 5.50 GHz

2,047 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

659 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

20C / 20T · 5.50 GHz

2,261 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

1,965 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

20C / 20T · 5.20 GHz

35,315 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,437 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

20C / 20T · 5.50 GHz

3,210

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

3,125

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

20C / 20T · 5.20 GHz

21,640

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

11,863

AI performance (NPU)

20C / 20T · 3.90 GHz

13.0 TOPS

8C / 8T · 0.70 GHz

35.0 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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF	Apple M3 (8-GPU)
Family	Intel Core Ultra 7 (31)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Intel Core Ultra 200 AL-S (20)	Apple M3 (6)
Architecture	Arrow Lake	M3
Technology	3 nm	3 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1851
Predecessor		Apple M2 (8-GPU)
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF	Apple M3 (8-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	20 / 20	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	8x Lion Cove 3.90 - 5.50 GHz	4x Ibiza P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	12x Skymont 3.30 - 4.60 GHz	4x Ibiza E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz
L2-Cache	36.00 MB	20.00 MB
L3-Cache	30.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF	Apple M3 (8-GPU)
GPU name	no iGPU	Apple M3 (8 Core)
GPU frequency		0.39 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	128 / 1024
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays		2
Max. GPU Memory		24 GB
Technology		3 nm
Release date		Q4/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF	Apple M3 (8-GPU)
AI hardware	Intel® AI Boost	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	Intel AI Boost NPU 4 @ 13 TOPS	16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF	Apple M3 (8-GPU)
Memory	DDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	256 GB	24 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	5.0 x 20	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF	Apple M3 (8-GPU)
TDP	125 W	22 W
TDP (PL2)	177 W
TDP up	250 W
TDP down		10 W
T. junction max.	105 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF	Apple M3 (8-GPU)
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 11, Linux	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q4/2024	Q4/2023
Release price	379 $
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 265KF is 4.3 stars (66 ratings), while Apple M3 (8-GPU) has received 4.5 stars (130 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF
20C / 20T · 3.90 - 5.50 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M3 (8-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★