[mchanson]

Single core still lags way behind. Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has same single core at a 3 year old A15.

They are staying even / besting apple in multicore through adding more cores than apple does.

[FirmwareBurner]

To be fair, Geekbench is a relatively poor representation of real world performance. It's heavily used since it's one of the few benchmarks that works across all major platforms and architectures, making comparisons easy, but not necessarily realistic.