The M1 doesn't really benchmark in pure CPUs tests much higher that the Intel chips it replaced... it's was an incremental upgrade, not a generational upgrade; in other word, pure CPU benchmark increases would have been realized when/if the nextgen Intel chips were used.
Instead, most of the felt responsiveness on the M1 comes from the insane memory bandwidth. Everything from launching apps to task swapping to garbage collection events in various languages gets a boost from the lower latency and higher bandwidth.
Instead, most of the felt responsiveness on the M1 comes from the insane memory bandwidth. Everything from launching apps to task swapping to garbage collection events in various languages gets a boost from the lower latency and higher bandwidth.