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iMac Pro has a large variety of performance, going from 8 to 18 cores and it uses a 4+ year old Xeon CPU. Unsurprisingly the 18 core handily beats the M1 in multi-core benchmarks:

18 core iMac Pro 13339: https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/imac-pro-late-2017-intel-...

M1 Mac mini 7408: https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/mac-mini-late-2020