Sorted by result.
Note: M4 wins by a landslide when it comes to perf/watt but performs poorly in terms of raw performance for these benchmarks.
Note to self: Keep working with a beefy x86 workstation because time is valuable.
FLAC encoding: best
Compiling FFmpeg: average
Compiling LLVM: average
C-Ray 2.0 1080p: average
C-Ray 2.0 4k: average
Zstd compression: second worst
Zstd decompression: second worst
7-Zip compression: worst
7-Zip decompression: worst
Appleseed 2.0: worst
V-RAY 6.0: worst
IndigoBench: worst
QuantLib: worst
Apache HTTP Server: worst
DuckDB: worst
PyBench: worst
x265: worst
Kavazaar 2.2: worst
AVIF encoding: worst
JPEG-XL encoding: worst