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How are they able to claim such lofty performance gains? What is the catch?

What performance gains are you referring to? No mention of that in the featured article

The livestream said that the M2 Ultra is as fast as 7x afterburner cards or something wild.

Edit: Wrong product, whoops

That is just from the newer encoding blocks, which are a small part of the die... And probably a cherry picked result.