> On paper those specs definitely look game-changing to me. The reality is that the newer processor is better in all benchmarks. Like 4-5x on the benchmarks I

> On paper those specs definitely look game-changing to me. The reality is that the newer processor is better in all benchmarks. Like 4-5x on the benchmarks I looked up, yes. But back in the day, the 'turbo' frequency was only available for a few seconds for thermal and power reasons, and the 'base' clock speed was how it would actually perform on big, compute-intensive tasks. If you only consider "8 performance cores, 2.1 GHz Base" vs "4 cores, 4.0 GHz base" and you also discount the 'efficiency cores', a person might think performance had barely changed.