Intel's Alder Lake chips are bench marked at 5 GHz. Apple's 13-inch MacBook Pro runs at 3.2 GHz. Since performance is proportional to clock speed. Apple could easily overtake Alder Lake chips by raising the clock speed.
I bet Apple could beat the higher clocked chip in a real world test regardless as I'm pretty sure the M1 chips will never have the throttle at all. It could pretty much run at full clock speed indefinitely, and without even kicking the fans way up (at least on the 15" MacBook Pro models).
This reminds me of the PPC G4/G5 versus Pentium 4 crap a long time ago where Intel would kill it on chip frequency, but in the end would sometimes lose out to lower clocked chips, such as the PPC G4/G5 in certain tests. Yes, this was because of different reasons than the M1 versus Alder Lake chips but I'm just saying it just kinda reminds me of this back and forth that constantly happened until Apple finally switched to Intel.
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This reminds me of the PPC G4/G5 versus Pentium 4 crap a long time ago where Intel would kill it on chip frequency, but in the end would sometimes lose out to lower clocked chips, such as the PPC G4/G5 in certain tests. Yes, this was because of different reasons than the M1 versus Alder Lake chips but I'm just saying it just kinda reminds me of this back and forth that constantly happened until Apple finally switched to Intel.