We'll find out soon enough how things stand but just to point out that your first comment on small vs large cores really doesn't work - the benchmarks being quo

We'll find out soon enough how things stand but just to point out that your first comment on small vs large cores really doesn't work - the benchmarks being quoted are absolute performance not performance per watt benchmarks. Small cores are more power efficient but they do less in a given period of time and hence benchmark lower.