apple m1 pro vs intel core i9 9880h

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We compared two CPUs Apple M1 Pro (Laptop) 10-cores against Intel Core i9 9880H (Laptop) 8-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved

Key Differences

What are the key differences between Apple M1 Pro and Intel Core i9 9880H
Advantages of Apple M1 Pro
  • Newer released 2 years later
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Has 8 MB larger L3 cache size
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 14
Advantages of Intel Core i9 9880H
  • 33% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.8 GHz vs 3.22 GHz)

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
m1 pro +26%
1544
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
m1 pro +28%
12199
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
m1 pro +37%
1761
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
m1 pro +47%
12547

Specifications

Full technical specification of m1 pro and core i9 9880h

General

Apple M1 Pro Intel Core i9 9880H
Vendor Apple Intel
Released October 18 2021 April 30 2019
Type Laptop Laptop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Coffee Lake-HR
Socket FCBGA1440
Integrated GPU Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU Intel UHD Graphics 630

Performance

Apple M1 Pro Intel Core i9 9880H
Cores 10 8
Threads 10 16
Base Frequency 2.064 GHz 2.3 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 3.22 GHz 4.8 GHz
L1 Cache 2.9 MB 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 28 MB 256K (per core)
L3 Cache 24 MB 16 MB (shared)

Power

Apple M1 Pro Intel Core i9 9880H
Fabrication process 5 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) W 45 W
Max. temperature °C 100°C

Memory support

Apple M1 Pro Intel Core i9 9880H
Memory types DDR4
Memory Size GB 128 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - 41.8 GB/s
ECC Support No No

iGPU

Apple M1 Pro Intel Core i9 9880H
Integrated Graphics Apple M1 Pro 16-Core GPU Intel UHD Graphics 630
GPU Base Clock 450 MHz 350 MHz
GPU Boost Clock MHz 1.2 MHz
Shading Units 2048 192
TMUs 128 24
ROPs 64 3
TGP 30 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
5.2 TFLOPS
0.38 TFLOPS

Misc

Apple M1 Pro Intel Core i9 9880H
Official site Apple M1 Pro official page Intel Core i9 9880H official page
PCI Express Version 3
PCI Express Lanes 16

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Intel Core i9 9880H or Apple M1 Pro?