Intel Core i5-9400F vs Apple M1 Ultra (64-GPU). Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  Intel Core i5 Apple M series
• Generation
  9 1
• CPU group
  Intel Core i 9000 Apple M1
• Predecessor
  Intel Core i5-8400 --
• Successor
  Intel Core i5-10400F --

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.

• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)

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
  no iGPU Apple M1 Ultra (64 Core)
• GPU frequency
  1.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  1024
• Shader
  8192
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 64 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  1
• Technology
  5 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2022

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
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple M1 Ultra (64-GPU) and Intel Core i5-9400F. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 LPDDR5-6400
• Max. Memory
  128 GB 128 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 8 (Octa Channel)

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i5-9400F and Apple M1 Ultra (64-GPU) to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 60 W
• TDP up
  -- 120 W
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i5-9400F and Intel Core i5-9400F, 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 Apple Virtualization Framework
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
• L2-Cache
  -- 52.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  9.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Coffee Lake S Refresh M1
• Technology
  14 nm 5 nm
• Socket
  LGA 1151-2 N/A
• Release date
  Q1/2019 Q1/2022