Even then... in what ways are they actually faster, it seems that a lot of the custom (non-arm) custom processing units are what gives them the boost in a few c

Even then... in what ways are they actually faster, it seems that a lot of the custom (non-arm) custom processing units are what gives them the boost in a few cases, and compared to NVidia and AMD are still a bit behind there. There are a lot of ways to approach this, and in the Apple case, where they're really winning is the power utilization in terms of performance/watt.