Key Differences
Advantages of Apple M1 Max
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX
Specifications
Performance
| L3 Cache | - | 36MB (shared) |
| Integrated GPU | Apple M1 Max GPU (32-core) | Arc Graphics (4-Cores) |
| TGP | 60 W | 14 W |
Display
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Other
| File compression | 1450 MB/sec | 1480 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 105.1 Klines/sec | 216.2 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 329.2 pages/sec | 435.5 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 317 Mpixels/sec | 545.5 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 249.6 pages/sec | 344.8 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 42.2 images/sec | 78.6 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 122.8 images/sec | 156.4 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 14.9 Mpixels/sec | 46.2 Mpixels/sec |
| Integer math | 46.3 GOps/sec | 155.9 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 64.6 GOps/sec | 192.5 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 278M Primes/sec | 453M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 32.8M Strings/sec | 74.6M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 12.3 GBytes/sec | 47.4 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 275 MBytes/sec | 608.9 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 2817 Frames/sec | 3387 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 12.6B Matrices/sec | 47B Matrices/sec |
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 15.8 PPW | 36.8 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 253.5 PPW | 371.8 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 443 PPW | 1017.6 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | 3.98 PPW | 6.54 PPW |
| Vendor | Apple | Intel |
| Released | October 18, 2021 | January 6, 2025 |
| Instruction Set | ARMv8 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Apple M1 | Arrow Lake |
| Rival Equivalent | - | AMD Ryzen 9 9850HX |
| P-Cores | 8 | 8 |
| P-Threads | 8 | 8 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 3.2 GHz | 2.7 GHz |
| E-Cores | 2 | 16 |
| E-Threads | 2 | 16 |
| Base Frequency (E) | 2.1 GHz | 2.1 GHz |
| Total Cores | 10 | 24 |
| Total Threads | 10 | 24 |
| Multiplier | - | 27x |
| L1 Cache | 192K (per core) | 112K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 24MB (shared) | 2MB (per core) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | Yes |
| Transistors | 57 billions | - |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 3 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 50 W | 45-55 W (configurable) |
| Max. Boost TDP (PL2) | - | 160 W |
| Socket | Apple M-Socket | FCBGA-2114 |
| Peak Temperature | - | 105°C |
| Integrated Graphics | Apple M1 Max GPU (32-core) | Arc Graphics (4-Cores) |
| GPU Base Clock | 450 MHz | 300 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1296 MHz | 1900 MHz |
| Shading Units | 4096 | 512 |
| TMUs | 256 | 32 |
| ROPs | 128 | 16 |
| Execution Units | 512 | 64 |
| Memory Types | - LPDDR5-6400 | - DDR5-6400 |
| Max. Memory Size | 64 GB | 256 GB |
| Memory Channels | 8 | 2 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 409.6 GB/s | - |
| ECC Support | No | Yes |
| Model number | - | 275HX |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (P) | - | 5.4 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (E) | - | 4.6 GHz |
| Bus Frequency | - | 100 MHz |
| Official Site | - | Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX official page |
| PCI Express Version | - | 5.0 |
| PCI Express Lanes | - | 24 |