on Max or Pro chip?

Yeah, Apple's secret sauce isn't necessarily perf/watt in an all-core load (although they're obviously near the top there as well) but in idle power consumption. I'm guessing that M3 does better here, but I remember seeing a Phoronix test/review that showed that when capped at 15 W, the latest Ryzen laptop CPU beats the M2 in all-core workloads, although the M2 gets better battery life in "normal" workloads.

You running a ton of containers or something? I have a fairly intensive set of Docker containers running at all times and still usually get a full-ish work day out of my M1 Pro MBP