PSA for all people who are still being misled by hand-wavy Apple M1 marketing charts[1] implicating total dominance of M-series wondersilicon obsoleting all Intel/NVIDIA PCs:

There are benchmark data showing that an Apple M2 Ultra is 47% and 60% slower against Xeon W9 and RTX 4090, or 0.35% and 2% slower against i9-13900K and RTX 4060 Ti, respectively, in Geekbench 5 Multi-threaded and OpenCL Compute tests.

Apple Silicon Macs are NOT faster than competing desktop computers, nor M1 was massively faster than NVIDIA 3070(Desktop - 2x faster than Laptop variant M1 was compared against) for that matter. They just offer up to 128GB shared RAM/VRAM options in slim desktops and laptops, which is handy for LLM, that's it.

Please stop taking Apple marketing materials at full face value or above. Thank you.

  1: https://i.extremetech.com/imagery/content-types/03ekiQwNudC75iOK4AMuEkw/images-2.jpg    
  2: screenshot from[4]: https://www.igorslab.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Apple-M2-ULtra-SoC-Geekbench-5-Multi-Threaded.jpg  
  3: screenshot from[4]: https://www.igorslab.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Apple-M2-ULtra-SoC-Geekbench-5-OpenCL-Compute.jpg  
  4: https://wccftech.com/apple-m2-ultra-soc-isnt-faster-than-amd-intel-last-year-desktop-cpus-50-slower-than-nvidia-rtx-4080/