I did some more tests in Blender comparing the performance of 14in m1 Pro (10c CPU, 16c GPU) powered macbook against the Zephyrus g15 ryzen 9 5900hs 3070 laptop.  
I am able to get much better viewport playback on both cycles and Eevee with the M1 Pro vs zephyrus g15.  Is there something set incorrectly on the zephyrus?  I have gpu compute set for cycles and it seems to be using the GPU ..but the performance is poor.  I am using CPU compute on the M1.  Eevee seems to utilize GPUs in both systems, the M1 does a bit better here as well, but this is a simple test and I need to get a more complicated scene to really test viewport performance.