The M3 Pro chip was sandbagged… it has less (but better) cores than the M2 Pro, as they pulled it back to being more mid-range in the tiers than before. It used to have the same CPU as the Max, but now the max is substantially more powerful than the Pro as it pulled far ahead this generation.

And the QC chips will be releasing around the time the M4 series is released.

Apple has Rosetta 2, which translated x86 apps on install into ones that function extremely well on ARM. Usually much faster on the base M1 than natively on the previous most powerful i9 Intel Mac.

Windows has nothing like that, and resorts to emulation, which is much slower. Qualcomm chips would have to be MUCH faster than Apple silicon just to match them.

QC is hoping to beat the mid level M2 in one metric right around the time the M4 series is released.