Key Differences
Advantages of Intel Core i9 12900H
Advantages of Apple M2 Max
Specifications
Performance
| L3 Cache | 24MB (shared) | - |
| Integrated GPU | Iris Xe Graphics (96EU) | Apple M2 Max GPU (38-core) |
| TGP | 15 W | 70 W |
Display
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Other
| File compression | 898.1 MB/sec | 1690 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 97.6 Klines/sec | 131.8 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 270 pages/sec | 368.6 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 325.3 Mpixels/sec | 382.1 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 248.3 pages/sec | 272.7 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 52.7 images/sec | 54.1 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 94.2 images/sec | 149.6 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 23.8 Mpixels/sec | 17 Mpixels/sec |
| Integer math | 92.9 GOps/sec | 57.8 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 67.2 GOps/sec | 73.6 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 106M Primes/sec | 360M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 35M Strings/sec | 41.2M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 18.4 GBytes/sec | 15.7 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 314 MBytes/sec | 336.3 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 1742 Frames/sec | 3839 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 18.7B Matrices/sec | 14.5B Matrices/sec |
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 21.9 PPW | 20.4 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 265.9 PPW | 297.8 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 602.4 PPW | 536.5 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | 4.67 PPW | 5.06 PPW |
| Vendor | Intel | Apple |
| Released | January 4, 2022 | January 17, 2023 |
| Instruction Set | x86-64 | ARMv8 |
| Codename | Alder Lake | Apple M2 |
| Model number | i9-12900H | - |
| Rival Equivalent | AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS | - |
| P-Cores | 6 | 8 |
| P-Threads | 12 | 8 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 2.5 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (P) | 5 GHz | - |
| E-Cores | 8 | 4 |
| E-Threads | 8 | 4 |
| Base Frequency (E) | 1.8 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (E) | 3.8 GHz | - |
| Total Cores | 14 | 12 |
| Total Threads | 20 | 12 |
| Bus Frequency | 100 MHz | - |
| Multiplier | 25x | 35x |
| L1 Cache | 80K (per core) | 192K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 1280K (per core) | 32MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
| Transistors | - | 67 billions |
| Fabrication Process | 10 nm | 5 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 35-45 W (configurable) | 50 W |
| Max. Boost TDP (PL2) | 115 W | - |
| Socket | BGA-1744 | Apple M-Socket |
| Peak Temperature | 100°C | 100°C |
| Integrated Graphics | Intel Iris Xe Graphics (96EU) | Apple M2 Max GPU (38-core) |
| GPU Base Clock | 300 MHz | 450 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1450 MHz | 1398 MHz |
| Shading Units | 768 | 4864 |
| TMUs | 48 | 304 |
| ROPs | 24 | 152 |
| Execution Units | 96 | 608 |
| Memory Types | - DDR5-4800 - DDR4-3200 - LPDDR5-5200 - LPDDR4x-4267 | - LPDDR5-6400 |
| Max. Memory Size | 64 GB | 96 GB |
| Memory Channels | 2 | 8 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | - | 409.6 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | No |
| Official Site | Intel Core i9 12900H official page | - |
| PCI Express Version | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 28 | - |