in the first place, if u are normal user, u should just with M1 range of products.

you are more hard-core video/photo editor, then go with M1 Pro or M1 Max.

If you are extremely hard-core one then go for M1 Ultra.

They are totally different range of products which is similar to how intel ranges their products from i5, i7 to i9 too.
of course only difference is that the performance is day and night difference for apple M chip.

more GPU cores becos most uses mac to do video editing which GPU is one the key to decide the performance.

I dun agree. Apple is just making the full range of products to suit different groups of users. They dun expect u to buy things u dun need that’s why u have the choices.

not really. the no of cores of cpu is matching with the gpu cores. the no of gpu cores are not the same as the no of cpu cores in terms of performance thus gpu needs more cores.

u can think of cpu core = person of doctorate can solve a complex mathemathic formula that kind of complex task, while gpu core = many students but each of them are doing much simple task.

10 cores cpu + 24 cores cpu does not means that the processing power of cpu is weaker than gpu which it is focusing on graphical related tasks only.

there is M1 Max option that comes with more cores already. why no choice? like i said, the combination of cpu cores and gpu cores are not compared like that.

Usually batch processing, machine learning and intensive calculations (CPU focused type)

I dun know what u want either.

There is how many cores option u want. The no of GPU cores tied to it are totally relative. A pc cannot run without GPU too.

It is like

A no of cpu cores matches X no of gpu cores
B no of cpu cores matches Y no of gpu cores

They are relative.

Just choose the no of cores u want it totally does not matter whether u need the gpu cores or not.

It is a big house must have bigger door to match too.

The 20 cores with 64 cores is like a big car matches a big wheel so it has the overall good potential and capabilities.

Yeah, it's definitely skewed towards the creative industry as you can see with the adverts. I believe even with data science, a lot of the tools aren't suited for Apple Silicon yet and it takes a lot of workarounds to work properly.

There is no reason why one cannot easily find anything that suits himself which the deciding factor is more of the depth of one’s wallet only. Or best if other non apple products which can allow the ‘customisation’ that one needs one can easily go with that and there is no need to complain seriously.