>It's worth noting that Geekbench is a pure microbenchmark. The iPhone will not sustain performance as long as the others. The point is that Apple could solve this when moving to bigger devices.

Is that inherent to the architecture or is this a self-imposed limitation by Apple since it has to sip power and run without any active cooling?

Also, the A-series chips seem to fall down in comparison against the Intel Macs on multi-core performance which seems like it would matter for anyone who needs a desktop.