If you believe MLID’s rumors, he claims its going to be a significant single threaded boost (probably faster than Zen 5, maybe around the same as Zen 5 X3D) but will lose in multithread because it won’t have hyperthreading. Will still lose in efficiency to Zen 5.

Basically going to be similar to where Raptor Lake Refresh sits versus Zen 4, but will be launching way behind Zen 5.

Idle consumption is generally lower with the Intel chips, especially with C-states on. So if you don’t do anything but game infrequently and mostly just do general low intensity productivity tasks, most 12th-14th gen Intel CPUs will have much better average power efficiency than Zen 4 variants.