> I'm still extremely suspicious of all these benchmarks, because they don't seem to correlate with my real-world experience. Couple that with using the latest

> I'm still extremely suspicious of all these benchmarks, because they don't seem to correlate with my real-world experience. Couple that with using the latest and greatest from Apple, alongside the previous Ryzen generation when substantial improvements are happening each generation. > You may wonder why I used 3900X instead of Ryzen 5000-series CPUs: Because I don't have it. In addition, 3200MT/s RAM is not adequate for Ryzen because that sets the IF to 1600MHz which leaves a huge amount of performance on the floor, assuming OP enabled XMP at all. Furthermore, those results are suspect because of OP is (as you pointed out) incorrectly testing single-core performance, Intel should be besting AMD for that generation (only the latest generation is superior across all dimensions). This is fan-made marketing material. Performance-to-watt would have shown the true advantage of M1, not this cherry-picked nonsense.