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Apple M1 Pro vs Intel Core i7-7700HQ

Apple M1 Pro

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The Apple M1 Pro is a System on a Chip (SoC) from Apple that is found in the late 2021 MacBook Pro 14 and 16-inch models. It offers  all 10 cores available in the chip divided in eight performance cores (P-cores with 600 - 3220 MHz) and two power-efficiency cores (E-cores with 600 - 2064 MHz). There is no Turbo Boost for single cores or short burst periods. The cores are similar to the cores in the Apple M1. The entry level model offers only 8 cores.

The big cores (codename Firestorm) offer 192 KB instruction cache, 128 KB data cache, and 24 MB shared L2 cache (up from 12 MB in the M1). The four efficiency cores (codename Icestorm) are a lot smaller and offer only 128 KB instruction cache, 64 KB data cache, and 4 MB shared cache. CPU and GPU can both use the 24 MB SLC (System Level Cache). The efficiency cores (E cluster) clock with 600 - 2064 MHz, the performance cores (P cluster) with 600 - 3228 MHz.

The unified memory (16 or 32 GB LPDDR5-6400) next to the chip is connected by a 256 bit memory controller (200 GB/s bandwidth) and can be used by the GPU and CPU.

The integrated graphics card in the M1 Pro offers all 16 cores.

Furthermore, the SoC integrates a fast 16 core neural engine, a secure enclave (e.g., for encryption), a unified memory architecture, Thunderbolt 4 controller, an ISP, and media de- and encoders (including ProRes).

The M1 Pro is manufactured in 5 nm at TSMC and integrates 33.7 billion transistors. The peak power consumption of the chip was advertised around 30W for CPU intensive tasks. In the Prime95 benchmark the chip uses in our tests (with a MBP16) 33.6W package power and 31W for the CPU part. In idle the SoC only reports 1W package power.

Intel Core i7-7700HQ

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The Intel Core i7-7700HQ is a fast quad-core processor for notebooks based on the Kaby Lake H architecture (7th generation Core), which was announced in January 2017 at CES. It is the successor to the Core i7-6700HQ from the Skylake generation and is manufactured in an improved 14 nm+ process, so the clocks are 200 MHz higher at the same TDP. The architecture was not changed, only the video engine got an update (see our Kaby Lake article).

The integrated graphics card is called Intel HD Graphics 630, but the architecture does not differ from the 530 GPU from the Skylake generation and only the clocks are slightly higher. 

Performance

Thanks to the 200 MHz higher clocks (5.5-7.6% depending on the Boost), the CPU performance is increased and roughly on par with the Core i7-6970HQ (2.8-3.7 GHz but with 128 MB eDRAM). The TDP can also be reduced to 35 Watts (cTDP down), but this will reduce the performance.

Power Consumption

Due to its 45-Watt TDP, the CPU will be used in bigger notebooks with at least 15 inches most of the time.

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ModelApple M1 ProIntel Core i7-7700HQ
SeriesApple M1Intel Kaby Lake
Series: Kaby Lake Kaby Lake
Apple M1 Max compare2.06 - 3.22 GHz10 / 10 cores48 MB L3
Apple M1 Pro « 2.06 - 3.22 GHz10 / 10 cores24 MB L3
Apple M1 Pro 8-Core compare2.06 - 3.22 GHz8 / 8 cores16 MB L3
Apple M1 compare2.06 - 3.22 GHz8 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i7-7700K compare4.2 - 4.5 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i7-7700 compare3.6 - 4.2 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Xeon E3-1535M v6 compare3.1 - 4.2 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i7-7920HQ compare3.1 - 4.1 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i7-7700T compare2.9 - 3.8 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i5-7600K compare3.8 - 4.2 GHz4 / 4 cores8 MB L3
Intel Xeon E3-1505M v6 compare3 - 4 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i7-7820HQ compare2.9 - 3.9 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i7-7820HK compare2.9 - 3.9 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i7-7700HQ « 2.8 - 3.8 GHz4 / 8 cores6 MB L3
Intel Core i5-7500 compare3.4 - 3.8 GHz4 / 4 cores6 MB L3
Intel Core i5-7440HQ compare2.8 - 3.8 GHz4 / 4 cores6 MB L3
Intel Core i7-7567U compare3.5 - 4 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Core i7-7660U compare2.5 - 4 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Core i7-7600U compare2.8 - 3.9 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Core i5-7300HQ compare2.5 - 3.5 GHz4 / 4 cores6 MB L3
Intel Core i5-7500T compare2.7 - 3.3 GHz4 / 4 cores6 MB L3
Intel Core i5-7287U compare3.3 - 3.7 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Core i7-7560U compare2.4 - 3.8 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Core i5-7267U compare3.1 - 3.5 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Core i5-7360U compare2.3 - 3.6 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Core i7-7500U compare2.7 - 3.5 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Core i5-7300U compare2.6 - 3.5 GHz2 / 4 cores3 MB L3
Intel Core i5-7260U compare2.2 - 3.4 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Core i5-7200U compare2.5 - 3.1 GHz2 / 4 cores3 MB L3
Intel Core i3-7100H compare3 GHz2 / 4 cores3 MB L3
Intel Core i3-7167U compare2.8 GHz2 / 4 cores3 MB L3
Intel Core i7-7Y75 compare1.3 - 3.6 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Core i5-7Y57 compare1.2 - 3.3 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Core i5-7Y54 compare1.2 - 3.2 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Core i3-7100U compare2.4 GHz2 / 4 cores3 MB L3
Intel Core m3-7Y32 compare1 - 3 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Pentium Gold 4415U compare2.3 GHz2 / 4 cores2 MB L3
Intel Core m3-7Y30 compare1 - 2.6 GHz2 / 4 cores4 MB L3
Intel Celeron 3965U compare2.2 GHz2 / 2 cores2 MB L3
Intel Core i3-7020U compare2.3 GHz2 / 4 cores3 MB L3
Intel Celeron 3867U compare1.8 GHz2 / 2 cores2 MB L3
Intel Celeron 3865U compare1.8 GHz2 / 2 cores2 MB L3
Intel Pentium Gold 4425Y compare1.7 GHz2 / 4 cores2 MB L3
Intel Pentium Gold 4415Y compare1.6 GHz2 / 4 cores2 MB L3
Intel Pentium Gold 4410Y compare1.5 GHz2 / 4 cores2 MB L3
Intel Celeron 3965Y compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores2 MB L3
Clock2064 - 3220 MHz2800 - 3800 MHz
L1 Cache2.9 MB256 KB
L2 Cache28 MB1 MB
L3 Cache24 MB6 MB
Cores / Threads10 / 104 / 8
Transistors33700 Million
Technology5 nm14 nm
FeaturesARMv8 Instruction SetDual-Channel DDR3L-1600/DDR4-2133 Memory Controller, AVX, AVX2, Quick Sync, Virtualization, AES-NI save
iGPUApple M1 Pro 16-Core GPUIntel HD Graphics 630 (350 - 1100 MHz)
Chip AI11 TOPS INT8
ArchitectureARMx86
Announced
CodenameKaby Lake
TDP45 Watt
max. Temp.100 °C
SocketBGA
$378 U.S.

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - CB R15 + R20 + 7-Zip + X265 + Blender + 3DM11 CPU - i7-7700HQ
26.5 pt (44%)
AMD E1-2100
2.32 -91%
...
AMD Ryzen 7 2700U
25 -6%
AMD Ryzen 5 3550H
25.1 -5%
AMD Ryzen 7 3750H
25.4 -4%
Intel Core i3-1110G4
25.7 -3%
Intel Core i3-1005G1
25.7 -3%
Intel Processor N97
25.8 -3%
Intel Core i5-8259U
25.9 -2%
Intel Core i3-10110U
26 -2%
Intel Core i5-8265U
26.4 0%
Intel Core i7-7700HQ
26.5
Intel Core i7-8550U
26.6 0%
AMD Ryzen 5 7520U
26.7 1%
Intel Core i3-N305
26.9 2%
AMD Ryzen 3 4300U
26.9 2%
Intel Core i5-1035G4
27 2%
AMD Ryzen Z2 A
27.1 2%
Intel Core i5-10210U
27.1 2%
Intel Core 3 N355
27.2 3%
Intel Core i5-1035G1
27.2 3%
...
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX
50.1 89%
max:
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX
60.1 127%
0%
100%
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Cinebench 2024 - Cinebench 2024 CPU Single Core
100%
1 M1 Pro +
112 Points (56%)
Cinebench 2024 - Cinebench 2024 CPU Multi Core
100%
1 M1 Pro +
824 Points (15%)
Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Multi Core
100%
1 M1 Pro +
12370 Points (11%)
Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Single Core
100%
1 M1 Pro +
1534 Points (62%)
Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Single Core)
393 Points (43%)
min: 358     avg: 370     median: 370 (40%)     max: 382 Points
Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Multi Core)
2721 Points (7%)
min: 1765     avg: 1774     median: 1774 (4%)     max: 1783 Points
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64 Bit
1690 Points (11%)
min: 603     avg: 727     median: 734 (5%)     max: 747 Points
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64 Bit
209 Points (58%)
min: 120     avg: 155.4     median: 159 (44%)     max: 162 Points
Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Multi 64 Bit
min: 6.67     avg: 8     median: 8.1 (11%)     max: 8.23 Points
Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64 Bit
min: 1.36     avg: 1.8     median: 1.8 (43%)     max: 1.84 Points
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (32bit)
min: 5426     avg: 5882     median: 5910 (36%)     max: 7214 Points
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (32bit)
min: 19409     avg: 22384     median: 22152 (16%)     max: 29209 Points
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (64bit)
min: 28341     avg: 28770     median: 28724.5 (18%)     max: 29210 Points
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (64bit)
min: 7347     avg: 7559     median: 7584 (9%)     max: 7795 Points
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 1024m *
min: 210.4     avg: 257.2     median: 225.7 (3%)     max: 379 s
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 32m *
min: 6.932     avg: 8.7     median: 7.5 (2%)     max: 20.1 s
wPrime 1.55 - wPrime 1.55 1024m *
212.2 s (1%)
wPrime 1.55 - wPrime 1.55 32m *
7.6 s (4%)
WinRAR - WinRAR 4.0
min: 3763     avg: 4418     median: 4541.5 (7%)     max: 4903 Points
7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Multi Thread 4 runs
min: 18417     avg: 20916     median: 19916 (11%)     max: 25414 MIPS
7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Single Thread 4 runs
min: 3986     avg: 4405     median: 4088 (48%)     max: 5457 MIPS
X264 HD Benchmark 4.0 - x264 Pass 2
min: 36.55     avg: 44.6     median: 46 (1%)     max: 46.45 fps
X264 HD Benchmark 4.0 - x264 Pass 1
min: 156.9     avg: 168.1     median: 168.4 (4%)     max: 175 fps
HWBOT x265 Benchmark v2.2 - HWBOT x265 4k Preset
min: 5.97     avg: 6.2     median: 6 (11%)     max: 6.39 fps
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Serpent
min: 0.361     avg: 0.4     median: 0.4 (12%)     max: 0.6 GB/s
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Twofish
min: 0.529     avg: 0.7     median: 0.7 (12%)     max: 0.724 GB/s
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt AES
min: 2.4     avg: 4     median: 4.1 (11%)     max: 4.2 GB/s
Blender - Blender 2.79 BMW27 CPU *
183.3 Seconds (1%)
min: 597     avg: 631     median: 631 (4%)     max: 665 Seconds
R Benchmark 2.5 - R Benchmark 2.5 *
min: 0.7217     avg: 0.7     median: 0.7 (16%)     max: 0.7605 sec
3DMark 06 - CPU - 3DMark 06 - CPU
min: 6876     avg: 7596     median: 7686 (16%)     max: 7839 Points
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M *
min: 9     avg: 10.3     median: 10 (2%)     max: 14.8 s
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M *
min: 22     avg: 23.3     median: 22.7 (1%)     max: 33.4 s
Super Pi Mod 1.5 XS 32M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 32M *
min: 511     avg: 565     median: 551 (2%)     max: 921 s
3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. CPU no Physx
min: 22514     avg: 25520     median: 26567 (20%)     max: 26880 Points
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Physics
min: 6007     avg: 8386     median: 8833 (22%)     max: 9653 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
min: 13754     avg: 46073     median: 47945 (39%)     max: 52765 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
min: 33185     avg: 46275     median: 47639 (39%)     max: 52753 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 42156     avg: 50621     median: 50806 (41%)     max: 53642 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Physics
min: 4328     avg: 7329     median: 7518.5 (19%)     max: 7867 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Physics
min: 6143     avg: 10428     median: 10617.5 (19%)     max: 10953 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy CPU
min: 2863     avg: 3938     median: 3951 (17%)     max: 4383 Points
Geekbench 6.5 - Geekbench 6.5 Single-Core
100%
1 M1 Pro +
2409 Points (56%)
Geekbench 6.5 - Geekbench 6.5 Multi-Core
100%
1 M1 Pro +
12440 Points (48%)
Geekbench 6.0 - Geekbench 6.0 Single-Core
100%
1 M1 Pro +
2405 Points (76%)
Geekbench 6.0 - Geekbench 6.0 Multi-Core
100%
1 M1 Pro +
12277 Points (50%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Single-Core
1768 Points (59%)
1004 Points (34%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Multi-Core
12499 Points (22%)
3742 Points (7%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
1030 Points (4%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
3924 Points (12%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 4415     avg: 4638     median: 4635 (46%)     max: 4808 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 13053     avg: 14679     median: 14783 (14%)     max: 15111 Points
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 4119     avg: 4477     median: 4452.5 (49%)     max: 4740 Points
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 12384     avg: 13663     median: 14009.5 (18%)     max: 14596 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
min: 13290     avg: 13780     median: 13936.5 (25%)     max: 14275 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
min: 3256     avg: 3641     median: 3675 (48%)     max: 3843 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 13753     avg: 14103     median: 14102.5 (22%)     max: 14452 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 3532     avg: 3715     median: 3715 (56%)     max: 3898 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
7620 Points (40%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
7210 Points (50%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
12792 Points (25%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
13091 Points (26%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
11263 Points (29%)
PassMark PerformanceTest 9 - PerformanceTest 9.0 CPU Mark
10003 Points (52%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
405.4 ms (0%)
min: 919     avg: 982     median: 965 (1%)     max: 1244 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
75.6 ms (1%)
min: 67.2     avg: 75.1     median: 72.4 (1%)     max: 108.5 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
66203 Points (44%)
min: 30332     avg: 38344     median: 38801 (26%)     max: 41638 Points
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
342 Points (61%)
152 Points (27%)
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
100%
1 M1 Pro +
1556 Points (58%)
Power Consumption - Prime95 Power Consumption - external Monitor *
100%
1 M1 Pro +
41.5 Watt (7%)
min: 70     avg: 76.1     median: 72.5 (12%)     max: 94 Watt
Power Consumption - Cinebench R15 Multi Power Consumption - external Monitor *
100%
1 M1 Pro +
48.3 Watt (9%)
min: 60     avg: 64.2     median: 63.5 (12%)     max: 70 Watt
Power Consumption - Geekbench 5.5 Power Consumption 150cd *
100%
1 M1 Pro +
19.9 Watt (9%)
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption - external Monitor *
100%
1 M1 Pro +
6.4 Watt (4%)
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption 150cd 1min *
100%
1 M1 Pro +
9.9 Watt (7%)
Power Consumption - Power Efficiency - Cinebench R15 Multi external Monitor
100%
1 M1 Pro +
35 Points per Watt (26%)
min: 10.6     avg: 11.3     median: 11.3 (8%)     max: 11.9 Points per Watt

Average Benchmarks Apple M1 Pro → 100% n=11

Average Benchmarks Intel Core i7-7700HQ → 59% n=11

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red legend - Average benchmark values for this graphics card
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