People who even know what Geekbench is probably know to wait for 3rd party reviews when the models are actually out to see real world performance. People like my aunt will buy a new laptop every 4 years because her desktop is full of crap and her browser is full of crap. So... not sure where this is going.

Ricardo:

A unreleased CPU using a new node beats an already released one by 30% on single-thread? That is good, but not super surprising. We have come to expect rehashes of CPUs for what, almost 5 years now? I'd say that's the least they should be doing, and about time. Meanwhile, AMD is also cooking Zen 3, which will probably be released before tiger lake and probably offer more cores, while supposedly having 15% better IPC than current Zen 2. So yeah, time will tell if these numbers are even good.

They are as good as: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/15604276?baseline=15459741 Now, why does this Same laptop showing this intel's CPU has that low score you may ask. Well, because this performance is actually baseline for given model. And since it is ultrabook, OCing CPU is very unreasonable due to cooling limitations. It is not sustainable performance increase ans can be seen in all results where multi threaded performance does not go UP with this OC. Likely tested in freezer too, which was not enough to sustain increased clock once all cores went under load. Only respectable benchmark result comes from preheated scenario which simulates sustainable performance.