Comment by marcusarmstrong

A TDP comparison is certainly reasonable, though we don't actually have real power consumption metrics so it's a challenging thing to really evaluate. But more to your question, it depends on whether you're trying to evaluate _this chip_ or the _chip family_. Personally I'm not going to be buying anything with the M1 in it because they aren't machines that fit what I need, but I'm extremely interested in benchmarks of the M1 because of what they tell us about the hypothetical M1X (or whatever it ends up being called) in a body that I would, in fact, purchase.