Their official benchmarks => https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

According to PassMark CPU Benchmarks, a trusted source, updated frequently, the M3 Max 16 Core is the fastest single thread cpu with a score of 4,785, followed by the M3 Max 14 Core with a score of 4,771.

Although the numbers above are close, it does not make much sense to me that a chip with more CPUs will be faster on single thread performance than the same chip with less CPUs. But I can be wrong.

Also, according to this list, even the M3 8 Core beats the M4 chips (Pro and Max included). Again on single thread performance.

Am I missing something or the M3 for single thread performance is faster than the M4?

I can't emphasize enough that I'm only talking about single thread performance here.