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I agree that Zen4 should be comparable, but it also will cost 4X to make, and more to implement since it doesn’t include RAM. The M1 is a system on a chip, wit

I agree that Zen4 should be comparable, but it also will cost 4X to make, and more to implement since it doesn’t include RAM. The M1 is a system on a chip, with all the benefits and drawbacks of that including RAM and port limits. The next releases will likely be A) a tweaked M1 for higher end PowerBooks with more RAM and ports and B) a desktop version with plenty of ports, significantly higher clock speeds, and off chip RAM. I think there will always be faster CPUs out there, but not remotely near the M series in power per watt, and cost per power.

sudosysgen 6y ago
Zen is also an SoC, but with off-chip memory, this brings other advantages. Most importantly, Zen 4 is a chiplet design, so for the same amount of cores it will be cheaper to make than the M1 chip. As for performance per watt, Renoir in low power configurations matches the A12. I would really doubt that a laptop Zen 4 on 5nm LPP wouldn't pass the M1/M2 in both performance and performance per watt, because Renoir is on 7nm with an older uArch and gets close.