Direct comparison between best MBP Intel 16" vs M1 Air: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/4651916?baseline=4652635 https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/c

Direct comparison between best MBP Intel 16" vs M1 Air: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/4651916?baseline=4652635 https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/4651916?baselin... 1.5x single-core perf. M1 MacBook Pro vs Intel MBP (top specs) show same performance: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/4652718?baseline=4652635 https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/4652718?baselin... Likely because GB5 doesn't run long enough to trigger thermal throttling on the M1 MBA. M1 is beating all CPUs on the market in single-core scores: https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks (M1 at 1719, vs AMD Ryzen 9 5950X at 1628). Anandtech on the memory-affinity of GeekBench vs SPEC: > There’s been a lot of criticism about more common benchmark suites such as GeekBench, but frankly I've found these concerns or arguments to be quite unfounded. The only factual differences between workloads in SPEC and workloads in GB5 is that the latter has less outlier tests which are memory-heavy, meaning it’s more of a CPU benchmark whereas SPEC has more tendency towards CPU+DRAM.