Apple M1 Ultra Vs. Intel 12900K: Which Chip Is The Best?
Apple claims the M1 Ultra is the most powerful chip ever made for a personal computer, a statement quite similar to what Intel made after launching its Core i9-12900K CPU, so which one is best? Clearly, both processors will provide an enormous amount of power and offer speeds faster than most users will probably ever need. On the other hand, the demands of software and hardware continually advance, requiring more powerful processors to keep up.
Intel launched its Core i9-12900K in the fourth quarter of 2021. This top-of-the-line CPU doubles the core count of the Core i9-11900K by adding 8 efficiency cores. The ability to switch to reduced power consumption when running less demanding tasks is similar to the way Apple's M1 family of chips work. Intel also increased Level-3 cache memory to 30 megabytes which allows a greater number of instructions to run at the processor's full speed without waiting for more to be fetched from slower memory. The Core i9-12900K’s 10-nanometer process provides additional gains in speed and efficiency compared to the 14-nanometer node used in the previous generation.
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With both Apple’s M1 Ultra and Intel’s Core i9-12900K processor available in computers on the market, a head-to-head battle is possible with real-world benchmarks indicating the relative performance of each. Using an ASUS desktop computer with the Core i9-12900K as the baseline in the popular Geekbench test against Apple's Mac Studio with M1 Ultra, it became apparent that this was a close match. Intel's chip tops the charts with a single-core performance of 2,029 points, while Apple's processor scored just 1,795. Intel beats Apple by 13-percent in
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