Depends on your workload. For me 3970x is faster in all my workflows.
I also have a maxed out Mac Studio when I need the extra cores and don’t need the portability. But I haven’t looked into hackintosh options for a long time. Perhaps I’ll check it out again some time. Thanks for the tip.
I think you severely underestimate how fast the M2 series is.
I compared. They are better on bang per watt but I'm still getting significantly shorter compilation times on 3970x.