> Apple [...] has inarguably the best-performing chips by far in raw performance and power efficiency
This is overstated. There are some benchmarks M2 does amazingly at, partly due to a super wide memory bus shared by the GPU. Power efficiency on performance desktop x86 is much worse than M2, but efficiency is comparable with lower TDP x86 SKUs and server chips.
If you're comparing M1/M2 chips to apple x86, you are looking at obsolete x86. Otherwise, I think it's buying into the hype just a bit much to say x86 is inarguably behind by far.
This is overstated. There are some benchmarks M2 does amazingly at, partly due to a super wide memory bus shared by the GPU. Power efficiency on performance desktop x86 is much worse than M2, but efficiency is comparable with lower TDP x86 SKUs and server chips.
If you're comparing M1/M2 chips to apple x86, you are looking at obsolete x86. Otherwise, I think it's buying into the hype just a bit much to say x86 is inarguably behind by far.