I think, for a light weight laptop I’d rather take the single core bump of the air over the marginal gain for multicore of the Asus. That’s just me though.
Geekbench 5:
Asus: 1218 sc, 8031 mc [1]
MacBook Air: 1726 sc, 7417 mc [2]
1. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/4854331
2. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/4856634