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Core i7-8700 vs ARM M1


Description
The i7-8700 is based on Coffee Lake architecture while the M1 is based on -.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i7-8700 gets a score of 310.2 k points while the M1 gets 142.3 k points.

Summarizing, the i7-8700 is 2.2 times faster than the M1. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
906ea
f4a
Core
Coffee Lake-S
-
Architecture
Coffee Lake
Base frecuency
3.2 GHz
3.2 GHz
Boost frecuency
4.6 GHz
3.2 GHz
Socket
LGA 1151
-
Cores/Threads
6/12
4/4
TDP
65 W
- W
Cache L1 (d+i)
6x32+6x32 kB
- kB
Cache L2
6x256 kB
- kB
Cache L3
12288 kB
- kB
Date
October 2017
January 1900
Mean monothread perf.
75.01k points
41.44k points
Mean multithread perf.
388.95k points
142.32k points

SSE3 optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode I (SSE) is optimized for the use of SIMD instructions with 128 bits register and the SSE set up to version 3. Nearly every modern CPU has support for this mode.
Monothread
i7-8700
M1
Test#1 (Integers)
16.45k
9.46k (x0.58)
Test#2 (FP)
23.74k
24.42k (x1.03)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
6.24k
3.76k (x0.6)
Test#1 (Memory)
13.43k
3.8k (x0.28)
TOTAL
59.86k
41.44k (x0.69)

Multithread

i7-8700

M1
Test#1 (Integers)
100.94k
34.73k (x0.34)
Test#2 (FP)
159.09k
87.52k (x0.55)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
43.61k
13.74k (x0.32)
Test#1 (Memory)
6.59k
6.34k (x0.96)
TOTAL
310.23k
142.32k (x0.46)

Performance/W
i7-8700
M1
Test#1 (Integers)
1553 points/W