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But you should compare it to a present day Intel system, and you should then also ask Apple to make the same optimizations...

I know, it's a difficult comparison. But OP stating "I just want ARM" will disappoint for any non Apple ARM (at the moment, I'd say due to software).

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You should be comparing to AMD, at that. There's hope for the upcoming Intel chips - but anything current isn't competitive. Furthermore, M* is good for a specific form-factor, but don't for a second suggest that 4 P-Cores will outdo the 16 hyper threaded cores on a 9950x

The only like for like comparison you can do is comparing an M1 MacBook to one of its Intel Mac contemporaries (which were present day Intel systems at the time).

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