I’d suggest investigating single core performance. If you have the money, buy an i9-12900K (slightly faster single-core than M1 but much hotter) and do some testing on that. If my theory is correct, performance will be even better.
We have examined that as well, last week we tried a AMD 5950X which has half the amount of cores but much better single core performance - the result was still at 60% of the Epyc performance
