I've got a brute force solver for the NYT Pips game. There's a particular puzzle that it takes 45.2 seconds on on my M2 Max Mac Studio. The solver is single threaded and doesn't use much memory so it is mostly limited by CPU and memory speed.

I ran it on my Pi 3, 4, 5, Intel iMac, and on my cheap Amazon Lightsail instance. Here are the results, in seconds:

  680.4  RPi 3
  274.5  RPi 4
  131.3  RPi 5
  108.5  Lightsail
   78.7  2017 iMac (3.4 GHz Intel Core i5)
   45.2  M2 Max Mac Studio