>> benchmarks often have long-running tasks Yes, but depending on who you're talking to, "long-running" could mean a few minutes or several hours. Throttling

>> benchmarks often have long-running tasks Yes, but depending on who you're talking to, "long-running" could mean a few minutes or several hours. Throttling doesn't usually have a major impact on tasks that take a few minutes. But on heavy, long running loads, the effect of throttling starts to add up quickly, which is why the i9 MBP couldn't outperform the 2017 i7 MBP until it was stuffed in a freezer. While the use of Premiere might raise eyebrows, I don't think it matters in Lee's testing, because he ran the same test on both the 2018 i9 MBP and a 2017 i7 MBP. Either way, it was a heavy, taxing, long running task. I don't think anyone will dispute that the i9 has significant performance gains for people whose CPU utilization spikes are relatively short -- and that might be the majority of people who will opt to buy an i9 equipped MBP. For content creators and other users who need to tax the processor for long periods of time, however, those users might be better off with the i7 version of the MBP.