Behold! The undisputed king of single-thread performance: the special edition, the final Core i9! The capstone of the Core brand, after 16 years! This truly proves that Intel has the most powerful cores on the market. It achieves this score by clocking up to 6.2 GHz, the fastest clock speed of any desktop chip. At full tilt, it consumes 325 watts of power; the raw heat output requires the largest cooling solutions and best-specced motherboards. Truly a beast of a chip.
In second place, trailing at 98% of the 14900KS's single-core performance: the chip Apple puts in its cheapest laptops. 21 watts
there's a lot more going on here than a quick glance will show though, x86 processors are still massively faster than ARM ones in many tasks, even though for what would be considered "general computing" and even gaming and certain art workloads, ARM is still much more efficient
and really, you should be handing the w to ARM, not apple, for creating and maintaining such an efficient architecture
and intel is trying to mitigate x86 being an old, bloated and inefficient architecture with x86s (though that's not really looking like it'll make that big of a difference, too little too late)