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Apple M4 8 Core vs Intel Core i9 12900F

	CPU Apple M4 8 Core	CPU Intel Core i9 12900F
General Parameters
Release Date	Oct 2024	Jan 2022
Manufacturer	Apple	Intel
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Instruction Set	ARMv9
Core Architecture	Apple M4	Alder Lake-S
Integrated Graphics	Apple M4 GPU (8-core)	N/A
Generation		Core i9 (Alder Lake-S)
Package
Transistor Count	28 billions
Manufacturing Process	3 nm	10 nm
Socket	Apple M-Socket	Intel Socket 1700
Power Consumption	20 W	65 W
Peak Operating Temperature	100 °C	72 °C
Foundry		Intel
Die Size		215 mm²
Package		FC-LGA16A
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	4	8
Performance Core Threads	4	16
Performance Core Base Frequency	4.41 GHz	2.4 GHz
Efficiency Cores	4	8
Efficiency Core Threads	4	8
Efficiency Core Base Frequency	2.59 GHz	1800 MHz
Total Core Count	8	16
Total Thread Count	8	24
Multiplier	44	24.0
L1 Cache	192 K per core	80 KB per core
L2 Cache	16 MB shared	1.25 MB per core
Unlocked Multiplier	No	Yes
Performance Core Turbo Frequency		5.1 GHz
Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency		3.8 GHz
Bus Frequency		100 MHz
L3 Cache		30 MB shared
SMP		1
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	LPDDR5X-7500	DDR4-3200, DDR5-4800
Max Memory Bandwidth	120 GB/s	76.8 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	No	No
Max Memory Channels		2
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics	true
GPU Base Frequency	500 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency	1800 MHz
Shader Units	1024
Texture Units	64
Raster Operation Units	32
Execution Units	128
Power Consumption	15
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version		5
PCIe Lanes		20
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	2091	1988
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	11229	26455
Geekbench 6 Single Core	3674	2572
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	13664	13687