{"id":431892,"date":"2022-01-28T16:40:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T14:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=431892"},"modified":"2022-01-28T16:49:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T14:49:18","slug":"intels-new-core-i9-knocks-m1-max-in-benchmarks-while-it-lasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/431892-intels-new-core-i9-knocks-m1-max-in-benchmarks-while-it-lasts.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel’s new Core i9 knocks M1 Max in benchmarks \u2014 while your battery lasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Intel’s Alder Lake mobile processors are running circles around Apple’s powerful M1 Max chip, benchmarks from multiple reputed tech publications have revealed.<\/p>\n

Tom’s Hardware<\/strong><\/a> and Macworld<\/strong><\/a> recently pitted the top-of-the-line Core i9-12900HK in an MSI GE76 Raider gaming laptop against the M1 Max in 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.<\/p>\n

Using multiple benchmark tools, the Core i9 consistently outperformed the M1 Max.<\/p>\n

In Tom’s Hardware’s tests, for example, it achieved a marginal 3% victory for single-core performance with a score of 1,833 compared to the M1 Max’s 1,781.<\/p>\n

In multi-core testing, its lead was a more significant 6%, with a score of 13,456 compared to 12,683. That is likely due to having four more cores than the M1 Max.<\/p>\n

The graph below illustrates these findings.<\/p>\n

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Macworld recorded similar results in its Geekbench 5 test.<\/p>\n

In single-core performance, the Core i9 hit 1,838 compared to the M1 Max’s 1,774, while the multi-core test saw it lead 13,235 to 12,590.<\/p>\n

Tom’s Hardware also performed video transcoding tests in Handbrake, which again saw the Core i9 come out on top, with a rendering time of 4:44 compared to 4:48 for the M1 Max.<\/p>\n

In its Cinebench R23 tests, Intel’s chip consistently outscored the M1 Max over 20 runs, as shown in the graph below.<\/p>\n

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Is it a sprint or a marathon?<\/h3>\n

While the Core i9-12900HK outpaced the M1 Max in raw performance, there is one crucial area where it lags \u2014 power efficiency.<\/p>\n

The Core i9 has a thermal design power (TDP) that can range between 45W and 115W, depending on the intensity of its workload.<\/p>\n

Tom’s Hardware recorded a maximum power draw of 94W on the chip in the multi-core tests, whereas its sister publication Anandtech found<\/strong><\/a> the M1 Max only drew up to 34W.<\/p>\n

The overall impact of these differences \u2014 the MacBook Pro lasted 15 and a half hours in Tom’s Hardware’s battery tests, whereas the GE76 Raider held out for just over 4 hours.<\/p>\n

That means Apple had roughly three to four times better power efficiency, a factor that will certainly count for those looking for machines that can last without being plugged in.<\/p>\n

Now read: Intel Arc graphics card leaks reveal good news for gamers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s official \u2014 Intel once again reigns supreme in mobile processor performance. But there is a catch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":431912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[605,73434,8193,131,75498,76096,40396],"class_list":["post-431892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-apple","tag-apple-m1-max","tag-benchmarks","tag-intel","tag-intel-alder-lake","tag-intel-core-i9-12900hk","tag-processors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431994,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431892\/revisions\/431994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}