Apple stated pretty clearly that the DTK was simply a test bed for developers that enabled them to see if their apps would run correctly on Apple Silicon. It should not be used to determine performance.

So your numbers are for an emulated geekbench test on a tablet processor that's two generations behind Apple's current state-of-the-art... and again, for a tablet processor.

The OnePlus scores you linked to show 904/3315. The iPhone 11 Pro Max score is 1329/3389. And that's a 6-core A13 vs an 8-core Snapdragon. So, faster across the line even with the Snapdragon's two-core advantage.

One iPhone 14 score surfaced, and that was reportedly 1658/4612. That's a speed increase of between 25% and 33% over last year’s model.

Their silicon team already handily outscores the Snapdragon 865 (Qualcomm), Exynos 990 (Samsung), and Kirin 990 (Huawei).

And again, that's on a phone. Without a notebook's power budget. And without a notebook's heat sinks and active cooling architecture.

I think the real question comes down to whether or not you think Apple is dumb enough to knowingly commit to a path where they're forever and always going to be judged as second best?

Personally, I don't think they'd go to the time and trouble to make the transition unless they thought they could be competititive in that space.

They jumped ship from PowerPC when Motarola and IBM couldn't keep up. They're doing it again with Intel...

But hey, time will tell.