Yeah, my first thought was "Oh, so Gmail will be much slower then?" Intel seems to be trying as hard as possible to define narrow scenarios in which the perfor

Yeah, my first thought was "Oh, so Gmail will be much slower then?" Intel seems to be trying as hard as possible to define narrow scenarios in which the performance drop isn't too big and only mentioning those. In its first benchmarks, for instance, it only tested a six-core 8700K, one of its highest-end consumer products, because obviously the percentage drop would be lower on high-performance machines than on slower ones.