Not for writing and reading actual files, no. But the 8GB of ram means it can swap to disk quite easily, and the faster speeds really make a difference with tha

Not for writing and reading actual files, no. But the 8GB of ram means it can swap to disk quite easily, and the faster speeds really make a difference with that. My M1 mac mini I got to play around with the new arch feels much much faster when memory constrained because of this.