Product Compare

Apple M1 vs Intel Core i9 7980XE

	CPU Apple M1	CPU Intel Core i9 7980XE
General Parameters
Release Date	Nov 2020	Sep 2017
Manufacturer	Apple	Intel
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Instruction Set	ARMv8	x86-64
Core Architecture	Icestorm and Firestorm	Skylake
Integrated Graphics	Apple M1 GPU	N/A
Processor Number		i9-7980XE
Package
Transistor Count	16 billions
Manufacturing Process	5 nm	14 nm
Socket	Apple M-Socket	LGA-2066
Power Consumption	14 W	165 W
Peak Operating Temperature		94 °C
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	8	18
Performance Core Threads	8	36
Performance Core Base Frequency	2.1 GHz	2.6 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	3.2 GHz	4.2 GHz
Total Core Count	8	18
Total Thread Count	8	36
L1 Cache	192 K per core	64 K per core
L2 Cache	12 MB shared	1 MB per core
Unlocked Multiplier	No	Yes
Bus Frequency		100 MHz
Multiplier		26x
L3 Cache		25 MB shared
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	LPDDR4X-4266	DDR4-2666
Max Memory Size	16 GB	128 GB
Max Memory Channels	2	4
Max Memory Bandwidth	68.25 GB/s	79.47 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	No	No
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics	true
GPU Base Frequency	450 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency	1278 MHz
Shader Units	1024
Texture Units	64
Raster Operation Units	32
Execution Units	128
Power Consumption	15 W
Max Resolution	6016x3384 - 60 Hz
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version	4.0	3.0
Official Website		Official Link ↗
PCIe Lanes		44
Extended Instruction Set		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2, AVX-512
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	1513	1263
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	7782	28196
Geekbench 6 Single Core	2231	1410
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	8035	11418
Passmark CPU Single Core	3717	2492
Passmark CPU Multi Core	14218	30462