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Intel Core i9 13900K vs Apple M1

82 out of 100
Intel Core i9 13900K
VS
51 out of 100
Apple M1
Intel Core i9 13900K
Apple M1

We compared two CPUs: the 3.0 GHz Intel Core i9 13900K (desktop) with 24-cores against the 3.2 GHz Apple M1 (laptop) 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
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Power Efficiency
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between M1 and 13900K
Advantages of Intel Core i9 13900K
  • Supports up to 192 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • Has 16 more physical cores
  • Unlocked multiplier
  • Newer - released 1 year and 11 months later
  • Around 21.35 GB/s (31%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • 22% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2939 vs 2410 points
Advantages of Apple M1
  • More powerful Apple M1 GPU integrated graphics: 2.6 vs 0.8 TFLOPS
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 10 nanometers

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Core i9 13900K
vs
Apple M1

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Core i9 13900K +13%
124
Apple M1
110
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Core i9 13900K +261%
1896
Apple M1
525
Cinebench 2026 (Single) 673 -
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) 8146 -
Cinebench Scores (#35th place)
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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 i9 13900K +22%
2939
Apple M1
2410
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Core i9 13900K +140%
20498
Apple M1
8547
File compression 1570 MB/sec 941 MB/sec
Clang compilation 193.2 Klines/sec 68.2 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 477 pages/sec 192.4 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 560.7 Mpixels/sec 211.9 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 301.8 pages/sec 250.8 pages/sec
Background blur 75.8 images/sec 34.1 images/sec
Photo processing 162.5 images/sec 60.9 images/sec
Ray tracing 43.5 Mpixels/sec 9.74 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 683 & 760 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Core i9 13900K +25%
4596
Apple M1
3673
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Core i9 13900K +311%
58087
Apple M1
14123
Integer math 206.4 GOps/sec 33.2 GOps/sec
Floating point math 150.5 GOps/sec 35.5 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 232M Primes/sec 141M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 86.9M Strings/sec 21M Strings/sec
Data encryption 46.2 GBytes/sec 8.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression 785.8 MBytes/sec 168 MBytes/sec
Physics 3101 Frames/sec 1359 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 46B Matrices/sec 7B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 12796 & 10702 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Core i9 13900K +456%
529.69
Apple M1
95.27

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 15.2 PPW 37.5 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 164 PPW 610.5 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 464.7 PPW 1008.8 PPW
Blender / Watt 4.24 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 i9 13900K
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-27 (Marcus Kuronen)Cinebench 2026645 / 7225
πŸ“˜ 2026-07-11 (Nagambie)Cinebench 2026673 / 8146
πŸ“˜ 2026-05-09 (veshelya)Cinebench 2024133 / 941
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-23 (Rohit007)Cinebench 2024124 / 1906
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-09 (LieInMyEyes)Cinebench 2024126 / 1771
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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 i9 13900K and Apple M1

General

Vendor Intel Apple
Released September 27, 2022 November 20, 2020
Type Desktop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 ARMv8
Codename Raptor Lake Apple M1
Model number i9-13900K -
Integrated GPU UHD Graphics 770 Apple M1 GPU
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 9 7900X -
Successor - Intel Core Ultra 9 285K - Apple M5 (10-Core)
Intel CPU rating (#14th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 8 4
P-Threads 16 4
Base Frequency (P) 3.0 GHz 3.2 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.4 GHz -
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 16 4
E-Threads 16 4
Base Frequency (E) 2.2 GHz 2.1 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 4.3 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 24 8
Total Threads 32 8
Bus Frequency 100 MHz -
Multiplier 30x -
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 192K (per core)
L2 Cache 2MB (per core) 12MB (shared)
L3 Cache 36MB (shared) -
Unlocked Multiplier Yes No

Package

Transistors - 16 billions
Fabrication Process 10 nm 5 nm
TDP (PL1) 125 W 14 W
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 253 W -
Socket LGA-1700 Apple M-Socket
Peak Temperature 100Β°C -
Desktop CPU ranking (#21st place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel UHD Graphics 770 Apple M1 GPU
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 450 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1650 MHz 1278 MHz
Shading Units 256 1024
TMUs 16 64
ROPs 8 32
Execution Units 32 128
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Core i9 13900K
0.8 TFLOPS
Apple M1 +225%
2.6 TFLOPS
More info: Apple M1 GPU (8-core) compared to UHD Graphics 770

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR5-5600
- DDR4-3200		 - LPDDR4X-4266
Max. Memory Size 192 GB 16 GB
Memory Channels 2 8
Max. Memory Bandwidth 89.6 GB/s 68.25 GB/s
ECC Support Yes No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core i9 13900K official page -
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 20 -

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