Apple M1 Max vs Intel Alder Lake Core i9 - Who Wins?

Benchmarks are out for Intel’s Alder Lake Core i9 chip. The raw numbers look like a win for PC users, even when compared with Apple’s M1 Max. However, asĀ MacworldĀ pointed out, there is a bit more to consider when making comparisons.

Geekbench 5ā€™s OpenCL graphics benchmark results look dramatic. The PC laptops PCWorld tested have expensive discrete GPUs that offer peak performance, and it shows in the results. But a more applicable comparison is to examine the results for the integrated GPUs. In this case, the M1 Max and its 32-core GPU posts a 183 percent increase over the Alder Lakeā€™s integrated GPU, an Iris Xe.