[poulsbohemian]

>our M1 is actually performing better performance wise

I did performance analysis work for a long span of my career. While I'm reading between the lines of what you wrote, my first question is - what do you mean by performing better? As in, is it somehow able to process more of these tasks over a given timeframe? If so, I'd want to understand more about the workloads you are running to make sure it's a proper comparison.

There's a whole lot more questions we need to answer here to understand the results you are seeing before we can have any kind of discussion of whether M1s would be "better."