This observation definitely isn't going to win me many friends round these parts. But if Intel or AMD launched a chip with the kinds of capabilities just announced for Apple's brand new M4 Pro, with the kind of IPC that Apple silicon delivers, with a GPU and memory bus of similar specs, we'd all lose our tiny minds. And that's why I wish I could buy a PC laptop or gaming handheld with Apple silicon.
Because the new M4 Pro operates on a completely different level. Just to head you off at the rhetorical pass, let's ignore for the moment the myriad caveats which come with this kind of thought experiment, the lack of Windows OS support, question marks over real-world gaming performance on an Apple-designed GPU, difficulties comparing things like ray-tracing performance and all that.
