According to CPU bench, the Neo CPU is about the same speed as a mid range intel laptop CPU from 4 years ago.

Apple A18 Pro (Q1 2026): Multithread 11977, Single Thread 4043

Intel Core i5-1235U (Q1 2022): Multithread 12605, Single Thread 3084

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On the high-end we got i9-13900KS at about 60k, M5 Max 18 scores about the same. But when you move on to server CPUs like Threadripper and EPYC things are about 3x faster.

Lets see if the brand new Arm AGI changes this situation in a few months.

For now, in server applications the ARM CPUs can win when the workloads are not computationally intensive, i.e. they consist mostly in data transfers and searches, for example in Web servers, database servers, storage servers, networking appliances, etc.

There still are applications where ISA matters, like technical/scientific computing, where the performance can be dominated by array operations or operations with big numbers. For such workloads the x86 CPUs with AVX-512 can provide a performance per watt and per dollar that cannot be reached by the current ARM-based CPUs.