The blue-logo CPU company gives you a choice. You can adopt their most aggressive power profiles and get marginal performance gains if you want them. Or, you can tune them down to levels where they are pretty fast and fairly quiet. Or, you can dial them all the way down to their most efficient operating point, which pretty much nobody wants because that point is around 1W/core and they are pretty slow.
Apple is dictating how much power the CPU is allowed to draw and they don't let it scale up. They are also making a static choice about how much die area and power to spend on the GPU, which might not suit every user. I know I personally don't give a rip about the GPU in my M2 mac mini, beyond the fact that it can draw things on the screen.
Apple is dictating how much power the CPU is allowed to draw and they don't let it scale up. They are also making a static choice about how much die area and power to spend on the GPU, which might not suit every user. I know I personally don't give a rip about the GPU in my M2 mac mini, beyond the fact that it can draw things on the screen.