[amq]

You can easily limit the power to 25W. Most manufacturers typically have a silent mode which does exactly that.

Not sure what you mean by many slow cores, since mobile zen 4 has a better single-core performance than m2 pro.

[aurareturn]

Zen4 desktop has - at the expense of much higher power consumption.

Zen4 mobile does not have higher ST performance than M2 series.

https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/amd-ryzen-7-pro-784...

https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/mac-mini-2023-12c-cpu

7840u's ST is slower by 21% while consuming much more power during the test.