Actually not true, even without GPU support all the ones I have (4 different SoCs - H3,H5,H6,A83T) are noticeably faster than Rpi 2 for things like browsing the

Actually not true, even without GPU support all the ones I have (4 different SoCs - H3,H5,H6,A83T) are noticeably faster than Rpi 2 for things like browsing the web. (H5/H6 a bit unfair, since it's A53 CPU) And desktop use is not the only thing you can do with these boards, and pretty much any of them is better than Rpi on connectivity, which is what matters for other use cases.