It is true that the two companies approach the hardware in a different way, it is also true that Apple is going its own way with its operating system and that comparatively it is not the most optimal for the user. But those are the rules of the game that those in Cupertino have established and with that in mind, the two flagships of Pat Gelsinger and Tim Cook have been compared: i90-12900HK vs Apple M1 Max. Who is the fastest ?
Intel Core i9-12900HK vs. Apple M1 Max
Again, we have to go to Geekbench to watch the laptop scores to see how the latest of the bitten apple is doing. And it is that the i9-12900HK is not as easy to find on the market as the MacBook Pro and its M1 Max, in any case the comparison is interesting mainly because the Apple chip has 10 cores and 10 threads (8 P-Cores and 2 E-Cores) with frequency up to 3.220MHz through an ARMv8 architecture customized by those of Cupertino.
Instead, the i9-12900HK competes with 14 hearts including 6 P-Cores and 8 E-Cores with a total of 20 threads operating at a maximum frequency of 5GHz. It may sound easy for Intel, but…
The numbers don’t show such a difference, because in Multi-Core the i9 achieves 14,338points, while Apple’s option remains at 12,755 points, a percentage difference that does not reach 12% (12.4% to be precise). Intel’s chip is therefore faster than Apple’s by an interesting difference with twice as many threads, but what about power consumption?
Power consumption will bring controversy
It is true that Intel is again ahead of Apple, but if we compare the two processors and in the case of the blue giant of high-end laptops to be fair, what about the actual consumption between the i9- 12900HK vs. Apple M1 Max? Controversial subject and we explain. The data that is seen indicates that the Intel processor is going to 100 watts at full capacity with peaks of 140 watts momentary, which are pretty high numbers for any laptop.
But Apple is not far behind. The M1 Max has a constant consumption of 92 watts and can reach 120 watt at specific times, so the differences are not at all significant with the different specs mentioned above. What happens then? Okay, the slide we saw the other day and put right back on top of it isn’t quite true if we keep extending the trendline to commented watts, at least under test conditions. normal and not under those of Intel.
In terms of temperatures, with this consumption, the two processors reach 99ºC, being the limit where the overheating protections begin to operate to prevent their breaking. Intel’s advantage here is that some laptop models, like ASUS, will run at or below the same temperature but retain frequencies with higher TAU, giving a performance boost over the M1 Max.
On the other hand, Apple has nothing to do with it since its design is unique and indisputable.
