[atq2119]

It's well known that performance doesn't scale linearly with power.

Benchmarking incentives on PC have long pushed X86 vendors to drive their CPUs at points of the power/performance curve that make their chips look less efficient than they really are. Laptop benchmarking has inherited that culture from desktop PC benchmarking to some extent. This is slowly changing, but Apple has never been subject to the same benchmarking pressures in the first place.

You'll see in reviews that Zen5 can be very efficient when operated in the right power range.

[hajile]

Zen5 can be more efficient at lower clockspeeds, but then it loses badly to Apple's chips in raw performance.