I don’t like to be called an Apple fanboy as I don’t even own a Mac but I enjoyed the ‘boy’ part I as I’m 71 years oldUntil you compare SIMD performance, that's what the Apple fanboys forget to show. Easy to get good cores when you free the transistor space used by 256 and 512 bit wide paths/units
I'd like to see dav1d benchmarks, for example, as it is well optimized both for NEON and AVX.
The performance/energy is still incredible, but I do wonder how much is due to their monopoly on TSMC's N5.
SIMD performance of M1 was not ground breaking, true. However, you must see the huge memory bandwidth increase of the M1 Max. Where M1 delivers around 70GBps, M1 Max reaches 400 GBps!
You don’t need to be CPU designer to expect that every benchmark will show much better results.