It’s surprisingly hard to pin down exactly how Apple’s M1 compares to Intel’s x86 processors. While the chip family has been widely reviewed in a number of common consumer applications, inevitable differences between macOS and Windows, the impact of emulation, and varying degrees of optimization between x86 and M1 all make precise measurement more difficult.
Until linux is properly available for apple new chips, it relevance in real HPC and scientific computing will stay very low, and intel and amd will still be the only options. For HPC, they are currently just a huge wasted potential