Apple M2 vs. AMD Rembrandt vs. Intel Alder Lake Linux Benchmarks

The Apple M2 performed well enough at VP9 video encoding using libvpx.

But the x265 video encode performance on the Apple M2 wasn't anything great compared to the Intel/AMD CPUs.

Generationally the Apple M2 against the M1 showed very nice improvements with the exception of a few heavy workloads showcased where for whatever reason the M2 on Asahi Linux was slower than the M1 (again, presumably some power/thermal issue right now in the Linux code).

AVIF image encoding was another one of those intense multi-threaded workloads where the M1 on Linux was faster than the M2.

Hopefully the M2 performance issue with heavy multi-threaded workloads on Asahi Linux will be sorted out soon as in many of these benchmarks even the M1 was running great against the Intel and AMD laptops.