[Kuinox]

You are seeing basically the lithography node used to make the CPU. Since Apple books more capacity than anyone else, they have their chip 5-6 months ahead of the market, you'll see chips with similar performance by core.

[philistine]

And what about the M3 Ultra, that sits at number 3 and came out ten months ago? Why was it not beaten five months ago? Might I add that the M3 Ultra is on an older node than the M5. And what about the A19 Pro, which is better at single core than every desktop chip in the world, and happens to be inside a phone!

Apple has the best silicon team in the world. They choose perf per watt over pure perf, which means they don't win on multi-core, but they're simply the best in the world in the most complicated, difficult, and impossible metric to game: single core perf.

[Kuinox]

It's bench score on single thread is 0.6% better than the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, which have a lower TDP and was released 6 months before. Boths use the same lithography node. If you look at the chip by their lithography node, the Apple silicons are the same than the others...

[chasil]

Apple was not tasked with producing the very best supercomputer with the ARM architecture.

That was Fujitsu. They each have their own specialties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugaku_(supercomputer)

[bitwize]

But at the end of the day, the fact is the best gear is made by Apple.

[hu3]

maybe. But then you have to use macOS which by far not the best OS

[Kuinox]

It depends at which point in time and what you consider is the best gear.