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Intel Core i7 10750H vs Apple M1

34 out of 100
Intel Core i7 10750H
VS
53 out of 100
Apple M1
Intel Core i7 10750H
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.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

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
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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 powerful Apple M1 GPU integrated graphics: 2.6 vs 0.4 TFLOPS
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 14 nanometers
  • 59% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2410 vs 1512 points
  • Around 22.45 GB/s (49%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4.0
  • Newer - released 8 months later

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Core i7 10750H
vs
Apple M1

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Core i7 10750H
70
Apple M1 +57%
110
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Core i7 10750H
402
Apple M1 +31%
525
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Core i7 10750H
1512
Apple M1 +59%
2410
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Core i7 10750H
5776
Apple M1 +48%
8547
File compression 465.7 MB/sec 941 MB/sec
Clang compilation 41.6 Klines/sec 68.2 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 135 pages/sec 192.4 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 179.2 Mpixels/sec 211.9 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 144.2 pages/sec 250.8 pages/sec
Background blur 28.9 images/sec 34.1 images/sec
Photo processing 52.8 images/sec 60.9 images/sec
Ray tracing 8.21 Mpixels/sec 9.74 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 1154 & 760 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Core i7 10750H
2606
Apple M1 +41%
3673
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Core i7 10750H
11432
Apple M1 +24%
14123
Integer math 39.3 GOps/sec 33.2 GOps/sec
Floating point math 24.8 GOps/sec 35.5 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 39M Primes/sec 141M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 21.1M Strings/sec 21M Strings/sec
Data encryption 3.9 GBytes/sec 8.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression 164.3 MBytes/sec 168 MBytes/sec
Physics 690 Frames/sec 1359 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 10.3B Matrices/sec 7B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 11941 & 10702 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Core i7 10750H
92.32
Apple M1 +3%
95.27

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 8.9 PPW 37.5 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 128.4 PPW 610.5 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 254 PPW 1008.8 PPW
Blender / Watt 2.05 PPW 6.81 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core i7 10750H
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-14 (Dabgoal)Geekbench 6 CPU1498 / 6671
πŸ“˜ 2025-02-23 (fatdog)Cinebench 202470 / 402
πŸ“˜ 2024-11-04 (sryi)Cinebench 202470 / 319
πŸ“˜ 2024-06-05 (ab.alixander)Cinebench 2024184 / 1173
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Apple M1
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-25 -> op1Geekbench 6 CPU2273 / 7967
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-24 -> op1Geekbench 6 CPU2420 / 8793
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-06 (gaR)Geekbench 6 CPU2396 / 8763
πŸ“˜ 2025-04-11 (Ario)Geekbench 6 CPU2395 / 8820
πŸ“˜ 2025-04-11 (Ario)Cinebench 2024110 / 465
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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
Successor - - Apple M5 (10-Core)

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 100Β°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
iGPU FLOPS
Core i7 10750H
0.4 TFLOPS
Apple M1 +550%
2.6 TFLOPS
More info: Apple M1 GPU (8-core) compared to UHD Graphics 630

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR4-2933 - LPDDR4X-4266
Max. Memory Size 128 GB 16 GB
Memory Channels 2 8
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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