I don’t feel comfortable with these comparisons because I think Apple designs their SoCs specifically for the software they expect to be most used on their devi

I don’t feel comfortable with these comparisons because I think Apple designs their SoCs specifically for the software they expect to be most used on their devices. I noticed, for example, that an older iPadPro with an A series SoC compiled Swift code in Playground twice as fast as my then current beefy Intel MacBook Pro. Similar design for running specific neural network architectures, handling their displays, etc. A few days ago I was thinking of getting a beefy Mac Studio for deep learning since M1 and M2 are now fairly well supported. I didn’t because this felt like swimming up river, using something not as it was designed to be used. (I decided to use $10 or $50/month Google Colab instead).