Panther Lake is impressive for x86, but decidedly middling when stacked up against a field including ARM.

The problem is that x86 can (almost) match ARM battery life but at much worse performance, or match the performance at much worse battery life. That's what the statistics don't show you when they show either max performance or max battery life tests.

I repeat it rather often on this site but it's because they're such impressive numbers: an M1 Ultra gets 70% of the performance of an RTX 3090 at 25% of the power envelope, and it beats out a desktop class Core i9 from that era at 30% of the power envelope.

Nvidia, Intel and AMD would commit murder for those kind of perf per watt numbers.