[smoldesu]

The M1 is hitting 4gHz across only 4 of it's cores, whereas the 9750 is driving 6 (and 12 threads on top of that). Furthermore, the M1 will have no problem hitting ~20w during peak load, so frankly the math checks out to me. The comparison definitely starts to deteriorate once you consider that the M1 is ~3x as transistor-dense as the Intel chip, and part of me actually wonders why they didn't get more power out of a chip that only needs to worry about a handful of instructions and doesn't know about hyper-threading.

[saagarjha]

Pretty sure M1 does not hit that frequency on any of its cores…

[smoldesu]

I was under the impression that the performance cores had hit 4.1gHz before, is that incorrect?

[hajile]

Max frequency is 3.2GHz and you can max pretty much indefinitely on the pro with a fan or the air with the heatsink mod.