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Apple M1 vs Intel Core i7-10750H vs Apple M1 Pro 8-Core

Apple M1

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The Apple M1 is a System on a Chip (SoC) from Apple that is found in the late 2020 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13, and Mac Mini. It offers 8 cores divided in four performance cores and four power-efficiency cores. The big cores offer 192 KB instruction cache, 128 KB data cache, and 12 MB shared L2 cache. According to Apple the performance of these cores should be better than anything on the market (in late 2020). The four efficiency cores are a lot smaller and offer only 128 KB instruction cache, 64 KB data cache, and 4 MB shared cache. The efficiency cores (E cluster) clock with 600 - 2064 MHz, the performance cores (P cluster) with 600 - 3204 MHz.

The M1 is available in two TDP variants, a passive cooled 10 Watt variant for the MacBook Air and an active cooled faster variant for the MacBook Pro 13 and Mac Mini. Those should offer a better-sustained performance according to Apple.

The integrated graphics card in the M1 offers 8 cores (7 cores in the entry MacBook Air) and a peak performance of 2.6 teraflops. Apple claims that it is faster than any other iGPU at the time of announcement.

Furthermore, the SoC integrates a fast 16 core neural engine with a peak performance of 11 TOPS (for AI hardware acceleration), a secure enclave (e.g., for encryption), a unified memory architecture, Thunderbolt / USB 4 controller, an ISP, and media de- and encoders.

The Apple M1 includes 16 billion transistors (up from the 10 billion of the A12Z Bionic and therefore double the amount of a Tiger Lake-U chip like the i7-1185G7) and is manufactured in 5nm at TSMC.

Intel Core i7-10750H

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The Intel Core i7-10750H is a fast 45 W processor designed for use in larger, beefier laptops. The Comet Lake-H family CPU was launched in mid-2020. It features six cores (twelve threads) running at 2.6 GHz Boosting up to 5 GHz (single-core Boost). The likely all-core Boost frequency is 4.3 GHz. Most of the specs are the same as the 10750H’s direct predecessor, the i7-9750H. The newer model has two advantages over its predecessor in that its Boost frequency is higher and the memory controller can now officially host memory clocked at 2,933 MHz, an upgrade over the 2,666 MHz limitation of the outgoing model.

Architecture

Comet Lake is a yet another revision of the dated Skylake architecture (not unlike the previous Coffee Lake, Whiskey Lake, Kaby Lake families) for similar feature set and performance-per-MHz figures. Core i7-10750H is manufactured on the third-gen 14 nm Intel process that is undeniably inferior to TSMC's 7 nm process, the one AMD’s Ryzen 4000 series laptop-grade processors are manufactured on.

The hexa-core CPU is compatible with up to 128 GB of dual-channel DDR4-2933 RAM and has support for PCI-Express 3.0 and Thunderbolt 3 but not the professional features (vPro, TXT, SIPP) as found in the case of Core i7-10850H.

Both the CPU cores and the iGPU have access to 12 MB of L3 cache. Four PCI-Express 3.0 lanes allow for read/write rates of up to 3.9 GB/s provided a suitably fast NVMe SSD is used.

The 10750H gets soldered permanently on to the motherboard (BGA1440 socket interface) and is thus pretty much impossible to replace.

Performance

Multi-thread performance is most similar to the Core i5-10500H, the Core i5-11400H and also the Ryzen 7 4700U. While perhaps not the best bang for the buck, the i7 is fast enough for any task, gaming included, as of late 2021.

Thanks to its decent cooling solution and a long-term CPU power limit of 75 W, the ThinkPad P15 Gen 1-20ST000DGE is among the fastest laptops built around the 10750H that we know of. It can be about 80% faster in CPU-bound workloads than the slowest system featuring the same chip in our database, as of August 2023.

Graphics

We've known the Intel UHD Graphics 630 iGPU for a while. This is the same iGPU the Core i7-9750H and Core i7-8750H processors had. In this i7, the 24 EU iGPU is clocked at 350 MHz to 1,150 MHz.

Intel UHD Graphics 630 will let you connect up to 3 monitors with resolutions of up to 4096x2304@60. The built-in video decoder will happily handle AVC, HEVC, VP9 and other popular video codecs (AV1 is not supported though). This is not a gaming GPU as it is not fast enough to handle most AAA titles released in 2020. At 720p, Escape from Tarkov runs at just 17 fps (low quality preset), to give you an example. As the iGPU has no VRAM of its own, it is paramount that it is mated to fast system RAM.

Power consumption

This Core i7 series chip is built with one of the old 14 nm Intel processes leading to subpar, as of early 2022, energy efficiency.

The Core i7-10750H has a default TDP, also known as the long-term power limit, of 45 W; laptop makers are free to reduce the value somewhat, 35 W being the lower limit, allowing for leaner designs at the cost of performance. Either way, a quality cooling solution is a must.

Apple M1 Pro 8-Core

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The Apple M1 Pro 8-Core 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 8 cores from the 10 available in the chip divided in six performance cores (P-cores with 600 - 3220 MHz) and four power-efficiency cores (E-cores with 600 - 2064 MHz). The cores are similar to the cores in the Apple M1.

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. Finally, the SoC includes 16 MB System Level Cache shared by the GPU. 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 and can be used by the GPU and CPU.

The integrated graphics card in the M1 Pro offers 14 cores (of the 16 cores in the chip).

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.

ModelApple M1Intel Core i7-10750HApple M1 Pro 8-Core
SeriesApple Apple M-SeriesIntel Comet LakeApple Apple M-Series
Series: Apple M-Series
Apple M1 Max2.06 - 3.22 GHz10 / 10 cores48 MB L3
Apple M1 Pro2.06 - 3.22 GHz10 / 10 cores24 MB L3
Apple M1 Pro 8-Core2.06 - 3.22 GHz8 / 8 cores16 MB L3
Apple M1 « 2.06 - 3.22 GHz8 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i9-10980HK2.4 - 5.3 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
Intel Xeon W-10885M2.4 - 5.3 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
Intel Core i9-10885H2.4 - 5.3 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
Intel Core i9-10880H2.3 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
Intel Core i7-10875H2.3 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
Intel Core i7-10870H2.2 - 5 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
Intel Core i7-10850H2.7 - 5.1 GHz6 / 12 cores12 MB L3
Intel Xeon W-10855M2.8 - 5.1 GHz6 / 12 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core i7-10750H « 2.6 - 5 GHz6 / 12 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core i5-10500H2.5 - 4.5 GHz6 / 12 cores12 MB L3
Intel Core i5-10400H2.6 - 4.6 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i5-10300H2.5 - 4.5 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Intel Core i5-10200H2.4 - 4.1 GHz4 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Apple M1 Max2.06 - 3.22 GHz10 / 10 cores48 MB L3
Apple M1 Pro2.06 - 3.22 GHz10 / 10 cores24 MB L3
Apple M1 Pro 8-Core « 2.06 - 3.22 GHz8 / 8 cores16 MB L3
Apple M12.06 - 3.22 GHz8 / 8 cores8 MB L3
Clock2064 - 3220 MHz2600 - 5000 MHz2060 - 3220 MHz
L1 Cache2 MB384 KB2.3 MB
L2 Cache16 MB1.5 MB28 MB
L3 Cache8 MB12 MB16 MB
Cores / Threads8 / 86 / 128 / 8
Transistors16000 Million33700 Million
Technology5 nm14 nm5 nm
FeaturesARMv8 Instruction SetDDR4-2933, PCIe 3, 8 GT/s, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, VMX, SMEP, SMAP, MPX, EIST, TM1, TM2, Hyper-Threading, Turbo, SST, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SGXARMv8 Instruction Set
iGPUApple M1 8-Core GPUIntel UHD Graphics 630 (350 - 1150 MHz)Apple M1 Pro 14-Core GPU ( - 1296 MHz)
ArchitectureARMx86ARM
Announced
CodenameComet Lake-H
TDP45 Watt
max. Temp.100 °C
SocketBGA1440
$435 U.S.
Manufacturerark.intel.com

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - CB R15 + R20 + 7-Zip + X265 + Blender + 3DM11 CPU - i7-10750H
34 pt (47%)
Cinebench 2024 - CB24 CPU Single Core
100%
1 M1 +
110 Points (76%)
Cinebench 2024 - CB24 CPU Multi Core
100%
1 M1 +
444 Points (8%)
Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Multi Core
100%
M1 +
min: 7409     avg: 7728     median: 7800.5 (7%)     max: 7830 Points
min: 4807     avg: 7129     median: 7463.5 (7%)     max: 8585 Points
9581 Points (9%)
Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Single Core
100%
M1 +
min: 1496     avg: 1512     median: 1514.5 (64%)     max: 1520 Points
min: 1136     avg: 1218     median: 1217 (52%)     max: 1271 Points
1531 Points (65%)
Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Single Core)
100%
1 M1 +
min: 401     avg: 403     median: 402.5 (45%)     max: 406 Points
min: 431     avg: 472.7     median: 472 (52%)     max: 504 Points
Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Multi Core)
100%
1 M1 +
min: 1863     avg: 2040     median: 2093.5 (5%)     max: 2109 Points
min: 1749     avg: 2848     median: 2941 (7%)     max: 3325 Points
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64 Bit
100%
M1 +
min: 1020     avg: 1063     median: 1072 (7%)     max: 1087 Points
min: 804     avg: 1263     median: 1303.5 (8%)     max: 1418 Points
1320 Points (8%)
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64 Bit
100%
M1 +
min: 206     avg: 207.3     median: 208 (63%)     max: 208 Points
min: 184     avg: 196.7     median: 197 (59%)     max: 213 Points
210 Points (63%)
Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Multi 64 Bit
min: 13.71     avg: 13.9     median: 13.9 (18%)     max: 14.13 Points
Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64 Bit
min: 2.17     avg: 2.2     median: 2.2 (55%)     max: 2.22 Points
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (32bit)
min: 7275     avg: 7377     median: 7376.5 (45%)     max: 7478 Points
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (32bit)
min: 37009     avg: 37154     median: 37154 (27%)     max: 37299 Points
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 1024m *
142.7 s (2%)
wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 32m *
5.6 s (1%)
WinRAR - WinRAR 4.0
min: 6265     avg: 6287     median: 6287 (10%)     max: 6309 Points
7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Multli Thread 4 runs
100%
1 M1 +
34614 MIPS (20%)
min: 26040     avg: 33946     median: 35346 (20%)     max: 37345 MIPS
7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Single Thread 4 runs
100%
1 M1 +
5441 MIPS (65%)
min: 4504     avg: 5114     median: 5120 (61%)     max: 5470 MIPS
X264 HD Benchmark 4.0 - x264 Pass 2
min: 77.4     avg: 78.3     median: 78.3 (27%)     max: 79.2 fps
X264 HD Benchmark 4.0 - x264 Pass 1
min: 220.9     avg: 221.2     median: 221.2 (51%)     max: 221.5 fps
HWBOT x265 Benchmark v2.2 - HWBOT x265 4k Preset
min: 5.54     avg: 9.6     median: 9.9 (17%)     max: 11.6 fps
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Serpent
min: 0.767     avg: 0.8     median: 0.8 (0%)     max: 0.78 GB/s
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Twofish
1.3 GB/s (22%)
TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt AES
7.6 GB/s (20%)
Blender - Blender 3.3 Classroom CPU *
100%
1 M1 +
964 Seconds (12%)
Blender - Blender 2.79 BMW27 CPU *
100%
1 M1 +
min: 412     avg: 561     median: 561 (4%)     max: 710 Seconds
min: 322     avg: 389.1     median: 371 (3%)     max: 587 Seconds
R Benchmark 2.5 - R Benchmark 2.5 *
100%
1 M1 +
0.7 sec (16%)
min: 0.578     avg: 0.6     median: 0.6 (13%)     max: 0.708 sec
3DMark 06 - CPU - 3DMark 06 - CPU
min: 10847     avg: 11405     median: 11307 (24%)     max: 12061 Points
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M *
8.3 s (2%)
Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M *
17.9 s (1%)
Super Pi Mod 1.5 XS 32M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 32M *
466.6 s (2%)
3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. CPU no Physx
43210 Points (38%)
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Physics
min: 8587     avg: 12991     median: 13325 (36%)     max: 14993 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
61445 Points (50%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
60119 Points (49%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 63803     avg: 65556     median: 65498 (55%)     max: 67904 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Physics
min: 6797     avg: 10850     median: 11135 (28%)     max: 12015 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Physics
min: 11653     avg: 17163     median: 17628.5 (31%)     max: 18769 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy CPU
min: 4911     avg: 6649     median: 6852 (29%)     max: 7543 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
100%
1 M1 +
2711 Points (32%)
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
100%
1 M1 +
min: 1956     avg: 3137     median: 3136.5 (36%)     max: 4317 Points
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 Single-Core
100%
1 M1 +
2363 Points (72%)
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 Multi-Core
100%
1 M1 +
8622 Points (34%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
M1 +
min: 1710     avg: 1729     median: 1730 (73%)     max: 1745 Points
min: 1114     avg: 1263     median: 1270 (54%)     max: 1333 Points
1769 Points (75%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
M1 +
min: 7034     avg: 7501     median: 7578 (14%)     max: 7710 Points
min: 4443     avg: 6135     median: 6308 (11%)     max: 6674 Points
9942 Points (18%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1215     avg: 1258     median: 1253 (5%)     max: 1325 Points
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 5710     avg: 6283     median: 6338.5 (20%)     max: 6632 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 5321     avg: 5572     median: 5600.5 (56%)     max: 5832 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 22859     avg: 24682     median: 24897 (28%)     max: 25637 Points
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
5640 Points (77%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
24958 Points (61%)
PassMark PerformanceTest 9 - PerformanceTest 9.0 CPU Mark
min: 13808     avg: 15156     median: 15155.5 (79%)     max: 16503 Points
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
100%
M1 +
min: 418     avg: 473.8     median: 483 (1%)     max: 516 ms
min: 764     avg: 783     median: 779 (1%)     max: 840 ms
407.2 ms (0%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
100%
1 M1 +
min: 65.2     avg: 75.9     median: 76.4 (1%)     max: 86.1 ms
76.7 ms (1%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
100%
M1 +
min: 62055     avg: 63340     median: 62589.5 (56%)     max: 66974 Points
min: 5561     avg: 46043     median: 53724.5 (48%)     max: 55732 Points
65528 Points (59%)
WebXPRT 4 - WebXPRT 4 Score
100%
1 M1 +
189 Points (54%)
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
100%
M1 +
min: 216     avg: 266.3     median: 280.5 (58%)     max: 304 Points
min: 202     avg: 225.2     median: 225 (47%)     max: 239 Points
343 Points (71%)
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 UX
100%
1 M1 +
min: 104389     avg: 105297     median: 105297 (88%)     max: 106205 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 MEM
100%
1 M1 +
min: 110874     avg: 111266     median: 111266 (90%)     max: 111658 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 GPU
100%
1 M1 +
min: 533978     avg: 539206     median: 539206 (99%)     max: 544434 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 CPU
100%
1 M1 +
min: 267169     avg: 271808     median: 271808 (98%)     max: 276446 Points
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 Total Score
100%
1 M1 +
min: 1017190     avg: 1027580     median: 1027580 (99%)     max: 1037960 Points
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 Total Score
100%
1 M1 +
min: 1040910     avg: 1113810     median: 1113810 (67%)     max: 1186710 Points
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 CPU
100%
1 M1 +
min: 244643     avg: 254253     median: 254252 (70%)     max: 263862 Points
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
100%
1 M1 +
min: 1266     avg: 1301     median: 1283 (49%)     max: 1355 Points
1490 Points (57%)
Power Consumption - Prime95 Power Consumption - external Monitor *
min: 70.9     avg: 93.4     median: 95 (16%)     max: 123 Watt
Power Consumption - Cinebench R15 Multi Power Consumption - external Monitor *
100%
1 M1 +
27.2 Watt (5%)
min: 78.5     avg: 103.7     median: 97.1 (18%)     max: 128 Watt
Power Consumption - Geekbench 5.5 Power Consumption 150cd *
100%
1 M1 +
min: 8.23     avg: 8.7     median: 8.5 (4%)     max: 9.49 Watt
14.8 Watt (6%)
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption - external Monitor *
100%
1 M1 +
3 Watt (2%)
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption 150cd 1min *
100%
1 M1 +
min: 2.29     avg: 2.9     median: 3.1 (3%)     max: 3.22 Watt
5.4 Watt (6%)
Power Consumption - Cinebench R15 Multi Power Efficiency - external Monitor
100%
1 M1 +
37.5 Points per Watt (28%)
min: 9.96     avg: 12.8     median: 13.7 (10%)     max: 15.1 Points per Watt

Average Benchmarks Apple M1 → 100% n=9

Average Benchmarks Intel Core i7-10750H → 91% n=9

Average Benchmarks Apple M1 Pro 8-Core → 112% n=9

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