In terms of performance per watt M1 pounds anything that has actually been produced on the x86 side. The numbers you present just show show the same old 'throw more watts and cores at it' mentality that got x86 in this mess. Eventually they are going to get to the point where air cooling isn't going to cut it (for the real high end stuff that is already the case) and no matter how safe it is supposed to be the idea of a water cooled computer scares me silly.Because it's not their primary focus. Intel and Nvidia prioritize raw performance first and power second (if not third). It guides how each proposed design change is evaluated and implemented. This is why the rumored top spec RTX 4000 GPU may exceed a half KW and Alder Lake lake client has ~270 watt pstates. People may not realize that Intel's ecores, unlike Apple's ecores, were not primarily included for power purposes but performance.