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by bryanlarsen 2198 days ago
Easy answer: Intel chips have more cores than Apple ARM chips.

But if they have the same number of cores it's generally a power tradeoff. A 12W chip can give 12W to one core or 3W to 4 cores. Transistors are optimized for a particular voltage & current, so when they run at a different power, performance scaling is not linear.