Apple's marketing on this was a very impressive effort on this, evidenced by:

>...I thought everyone agreed the comparable chips in 2020 weren’t?

Possibly, but it was likely far, far closer (see maybe the AMD Ryzen 7 4800U) than justified defense of the project.

Anyways, with the addition of the Rosetta translation layer there's no way the Apple M1 was as efficient as the Ryzen.