There's a lot of options from both mfgs above the bottom end. Alder lake CPUs (eg. 12600h is simarly priced with 12 cores) are pretty solid in the same price class as Zen 3. I think both have pretty competitive miniPC offerings (with intel usually offering more cores) in the midrange.

Definitely agree asst if you plan on actually using the minipc swinging a real mobile chip with 3x the perf of N100 class processors is almost certainly worth it.