How did you arrive at that conclusion? Comparing the M2 Max vs 13650HX it's very obvious the M2 Max uses a LOT less power. It's not even close, it's less then HALF the power. The M2 max has a little worse performance. But it manages to beat the Intel in some benchmarks.
You don't have to let the Intel chips scale up the power like that. You can lock them to whatever power level suits you. An i7-1370P configured at 20W has broadly similar performance to an M2.
Mind linking me some power measurements at same wattage? I didn't even know you could set a power target on Intel or Appl Mx. Well you can disable turbo boost on Intel but even then intel blows over their own marketed TDP by a lot.
Rapl doesn't allow setting a limit which is always obeyed. You can set PL1 and PL2 limits. But intel CPUs will gladly go over those limits in the short term. For example when running a benchmark. That's why I asked for specific benchmarks which include power measurements.
Apple’s chips are on better process nodes, which confuses the issue. That being said, you really have to test chips at the same power level to get an idea of performance per watt in a comparison.
You can easily double CPU power for only a few hundred MHz or 10-20% extra performance.
Yes I agree with you. That doesn't mean this is easy to achieve. With the exception of AMD chips it's unfortunately very hard to simply "benchmark with a fixed power budget".
Your model of RAPL's abilities is too limited. "PL1/PL2" is a thing that youtube reviewers have figured out, but it is a part of a larger picture. It does not make sense to discuss them without also discussing the time parameters. RAPL is able to hard-cap the (estimated) peak power consumption. If it lacked this feature, operating them at warehouse scale would be impossible.
