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by brigade 3271 days ago
Power/frequency scaling is quadratic since voltage can decrease with frequency, so even the 10% difference in base clocks could explain it, depending on where in the voltage/frequency curve they are.

Plus, this is Intel's 3rd iteration on the same process; even if the feature size doesn't change you can extract a bit more power efficiency with 2 years of feedback.