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It took 02:33 to render it on my 16GB Mac Mini M1 in Resolve Studio 17.1.1 with "Use hardware acceleration if available" ticked. The output file is a 30FPS UHD MPEG-4 QuickTime MOV file with duration 01:47.
Your current PC will be faster than an M1 for pretty much everything in Resolve if you enable GPU-assisted features. The M1 is fine for HD but struggles with 4K and GPU-hungry effects. For example, your first two clips played back fine but the third one slowed right down during playback. I had to drop the timeline proxy mode to 1/2 res to get it to display at full speed.
If you compare an M1 with similarly-priced PC laptops then it does indeed shine as a general purpose machine. But even a modest PC desktop with 16GB RAM and an 8GB GPU will run Resolve much faster than a Mac M1 in my experience. Resolve really needs an 8GB or better GPU for 4K work which the M1 cannot yet compete with.