That's kind of disingenuous.

Searching on Geekbench for Apple M1 ultra single core scores returns values mostly in the 1770-1780 range. E.g. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/14597244

Most 12900K score are between 1900 and 2200 but then there is this outlier with single core score of 1252: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/14572307

Intel certainly wins on single core, but the m1 Ultra multicore scores are still impressive in comparison being generally 23-24000, while the 12900k are around 15-20000.

So 1900-2200 for Intel and 1770-1780 for M1?

Disingenuous would be to focus on the outlier.

An outlier for m1 ultra was what was reported by parent.

Sure, Intel focuses on single thread perf, high power (241 watt max tdp), and automatically overclocks to 5.1 GHz, only if you have enough power, cooling, and a bunch of idle cores. Thus the 15% variation in submitted scores. It's also rather memory bandwidth constrained, and shows impressive numbers with a single core running.

Apple on the otherhand doesn't overclock, focuses on multi-core performance, has great memory bandwidth, and all the submitted scores are within 1%.

The M1 ultra is also 1.32x faster in the multiprocessing benchmark. Looks pretty impressive to me, even ignoring the much less power the M1 ultra uses.