Given the likelihood that each side could see improvements from code changes and optimizations, and that the results are similar-ish, that leads me to say that

Given the likelihood that each side could see improvements from code changes and optimizations, and that the results are similar-ish, that leads me to say that one is just as good as the other in general. This is especially true for most people, because most people will not be doing any one of those workloads _most_ of the time. Most of the time of computer use is doing many different things (at the human level and the software level), so the final compute comparison is basically comparing the difference of a small percentage of overall human time. So the choice between M2 and Ryzen is really about everything else - the use case, the hardware styling, the OS features, etc. It's good to know this benchmark info, though, because it means we can cross that concern off mentally.