Intel Core i7-4790 vs Apple M1. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  Intel Core i7 Apple M series
• Generation
  4 1
• CPU group
  Intel Core i 4000 Apple M1

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  3.60 GHz 3.20 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 8
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.00 GHz No turbo
• CPU Threads
  8 8
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A core
  -- 4x Firestorm
• B core
  -- 4x Icestorm

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics 4600 Apple M1 (8 Core)
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz 3.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.20 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  20 128
• Shader
  160 0
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  3 2
• Generation
  7.5 1
• DirectX Version
  11.1
• Technology
  22 nm 5 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q4/2020

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode
• AV1
  No Decode
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple M1 and Intel Core i7-4790. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 16 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 4.0
• PCIe lanes
  16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i7-4790 and Apple M1 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  84 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 20 W
• TDP down
  -- 10 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i7-4790 and Intel Core i7-4790, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d None
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
• L2-Cache
  -- 16.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  8.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Haswell S M1
• Technology
  22 nm 5 nm
• Socket
  LGA 1150 N/A
• Release date
  Q2/2014 Q4/2020