It depends.
This is the unfortunate truth when talking about process nodes. Whether one is better than the other is a balancing act around performance and power consumption. A more dense process generally has better power consumption properties. That means up to a point a more dense node would likely be better, but once that's passed a faster one is going to be better (the differences in speed/density don't tend to be significant so better is a relative term).
The part of the density discussion that gets glossed over a lot in more general tech media is that full nodes have high performance and high density libraries. It's the latter which TSMC has been consistently ahead of everyone else. I'm unsure if that's just due to their general engineering focus or a business one. Apple had bought out the first run of every major EUV node TSMC has put out until N2 and they predominantly use high density libraries.