Power Efficiency and RISC or CISC in Efficiency Cores?

Apples advantage comes mostly from manufacturing the whole stack, i.e. the hardware and software, as well as merging CPU, GPU and memory on a single chip. This allows for far more optimization, which is where most of the efficiency comes from. Running Linux on apple silicon is just as fast as on a x86 processor, it’s just not optimized.
I have high expectations for the framework ryzen version regarding efficiency, if tuned right we should get at least a lot closer to Apples battery runtimes.