The 1.7GHz boost speed is a significant limitation. Ignoring architecture differences for a moment, that’s about 1/2 the clock speed of something like an M1 or

The 1.7GHz boost speed is a significant limitation. Ignoring architecture differences for a moment, that’s about 1/2 the clock speed of something like an M1 or even a modern cell phone chip. It’s almost 1/3 of the boost clock of a modern Intel or AMD desktop chip. Given the choice and assuming equal cache sizes, I’d take a 3.4GHz version with 16 cores over a 1.7GHz version with 32 cores. The only time a higher core count with proportionally lower clock speed really helps is when you’re going for raw power efficiency.