Comment by throwa356262

Are you sure? Top searches for M5 vs Ryzen:

https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m5-vs-amd-ryzen-...

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-apple_m5_10_cpu-vs...

It is hard to compare apples to oranges, sometimes people benchmark different software (e.g. Safari on osx vs Edge on windows) or software that on one platform is more optimised. But in general it looks like AMD despite using an older process node is doing fairly good.