Intel Core i7 10750H vs Apple M1

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 10750H with 6-cores against the 3.2 GHz Apple M1 with 8-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
NanoReview Final Score
Generic CPU rating

Key Differences

What are the key differences between M1 and 10750H
Advantages of Intel Core i7 10750H
  • Supports up to 128 GB DDR4-2933 RAM
Advantages of Apple M1
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 14 nanometers
  • Around 22.45 GB/s (49%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • 40% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2288 vs 1631 points
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4.0
  • Newer - released 8-months later
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Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench R23

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Apple M1 +30%
1525
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Apple M1 +7%
7863

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Apple M1 +40%
2288
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Apple M1 +41%
8657
File compression 505.3 MB/sec 946.4 MB/sec
Clang compilation 42.8 Klines/sec 68.7 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 142.5 pages/sec 191.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 185.9 Mpixels/sec 229.3 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 162.7 pages/sec 240 pages/sec
Background blur 28.8 images/sec 34.8 images/sec
Photo processing 59.4 images/sec 81.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 8.8 Mpixels/sec 9.67 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2]

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Apple M1 +38%
3706
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Apple M1 +17%
14062
Integer math 41.1 GOps/sec 33.1 GOps/sec
Floating point math 25.9 GOps/sec 35.8 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 40M Primes/sec 149M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 22.3M Strings/sec 21.3M Strings/sec
Data encryption 4.1 GBytes/sec 8.6 GBytes/sec
Data compression 174.5 MBytes/sec 170.1 MBytes/sec
Physics 710 Frames/sec 1301 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 10.9B Matrices/sec 6.6B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4]

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i7 10750H and Apple M1

General

Vendor Intel Apple
Released April 2, 2020 November 20, 2020
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 ARMv8
Codename Comet Lake Apple M1
Model number i7-10750H -
Integrated GPU UHD Graphics 630 Apple M1 GPU

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 6 4
P-Threads 12 4
Base Frequency (P) 2.6 GHz 3.2 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5 GHz -
Efficient Cores
E-Cores - 4
E-Threads - 4
Base Frequency (E) - 2.1 GHz
Total
Total Cores 6 8
Total Threads 12 8
Bus Frequency 100 MHz -
Multiplier 26x -
Bus Bandwidth 8 GT/s -
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 192K (per core)
L2 Cache 256K (per core) 12MB (shared)
L3 Cache 12MB (shared) -
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors - 16 billions
Fabrication process 14 nm 5 nm
TDP (PL1) 45 W 14 W
Socket BGA-1440 Apple M-Socket
Peak temperature 100°C -

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics 630 Apple M1 GPU
GPU Base Clock 350 MHz 450 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1150 MHz 1278 MHz
Shading Units 192 1024
TMUs 24 64
ROPs 3 32
Execution Units 24 128
TGP 15 W 15 W
Max. Resolution 4096x2304 - 60 Hz 6016x3384 - 60 Hz
iGPU FLOPS
0.38 TFLOPS
2.6 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory types - DDR4-2933 - LPDDR4X-4266
Memory Size 128 GB 16 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 45.8 GB/s 68.25 GB/s
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official site Intel Core i7 10750H official page -
PCI Express Version 3.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 16 -

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Comments

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