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I don't think the geekebench single core score is all that impressive for Apple M3 Max. It's just matched 13900k which is almost an year old. Sure it has the efficiency advantage but I don't think that's enough especially with Intel's new meteor lake chips on the horizon.
AMD has the best chance to compete with multicore efficiency but their mobile processors only go upto 8 cores. The 16 cores 7945hx is basically a repurposed desktop chip. Again zen 5 is on the horizon and I don't see apple's number to be unbeatable considering the only advantage apple holds now is efficiency.
Being around 4 times more power efficient is a huge advantage in a laptop!
Sure. But in general you must have both the performance and efficiency advantage. If you only have efficiency advantage it leaves the door wide open for competitiors to match it pretty easily. The competitors are also a node behind and the only advantage going for you is efficiency. That's not great.
It should be way more than 4 times more efficient. Especially ST. When running the Geekbench ST test, it averages 0.3w - 5w of power.