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Those are only Cinebench benchmarks.

Have a look at SPEC2006 and 2017 benchmarks, M1 beating desktop class Ryzen 9 5950x, or just trailing behind (edit: in single threaded performance), keeping in mind cost of each and that:

> While AMD’s Zen3 still holds the leads in several workloads, we need to remind ourselves that this comes at a great cost in power consumption in the +49W range while the Apple M1 here is using 7-8W total device active power.




> the Apple M1 here is using 7-8W total device active power.

Anandtech showed almost 27W power draw under full load for the M1 Mini.


That's Anandtech's quote. M1 beats or trails behind Ryzen 9 5950x in single threaded performance, hence they mention 7-8W.

The 27W power draw comes from multi threaded performance. Ryzen's multi threaded power drain is at ~130W (as far as I know).




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