I guess you could look at the Mac Benchmarks of Geekbench: https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks Let's forg

I guess you could look at the Mac Benchmarks of Geekbench: https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks Let's forget the whole Apple Silicon thing, and look at 2020. The difference in single core is minuscule, but the big difference is multicore. Unless you need those extra cores, those computers are equivalent. Now compare a 2010 Mac Pro and the 2010-2012 consumer laptops. Single core is 100%, multi-core is at least 400%. That's a big delta and that's only 2010. If you go back into the past, it would surely ebb and flow but surely stay in that zone. I'd expect a laptop to be half the speed of a big pro desktop all the way to the prehistoric times when all computers were beige and laptops charged extra to get rid of screen ghosting.