I think at face value, those numbers make sense if we think about the types of benchmarks Apple would be running. Most of these benchmarks are probably rendering/productivity tasks and Apple has a ton of built in accelerators for just that in the SoC. Apples own slides show that they have media accelerators and such that are specifically made to speed up rendering and such tasks. So while M1 Pro/Max are probably as fast as Apple might be claiming, I highly doubt it's as close to a 3080 mobile in every task such as in gaming. And the kicker is, because of Apple's limited software support outside of Pro apps, it won't be all that easy to compare.
The efficiency is quite impressive though but than again... If Nvidia released Ampere on TSMC's 5nm, I would suspect that would also be quite impressive. Still, when you look at what's on the market today, it's hard to deny that it's not impressive. I just wish it did everything than just "Pro" things with light media consumption.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
