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In paper it wouldn't be.
PART of the reason the NATO countries moved from .30 caliber firearms during Vietnam to what is now referred to as 5.56 is yes, you can carry more of it than .30 cause it's lighter.
But the way it interacts with the body is different. A 30-06 will punch a whole in a person and leave a pretty tunnel like wound track. A 5.56 is so small and has so much force behind it when it hits a body it punches in and the force transfers to the body and leaves a MASSIVE temporary cavity because of a small projectile traveling as fast as it does hitting a body made up of lots of water and shit that transfers energy.
Plenty of the ballistic gel vids show the temporary cavity.
In paper, the fibres are quite weak and can't transfer very much energy to their adjacent fibres. But the fibres that did get hit by the projectile directly would have more energy transferred to them.