Subjectively, yes. Haven't bothered to quantify, but old Reddit (which you can still use at old.reddit.com) is more responsive; comparable to HN or Craigslist or other "last of the good old web" sites.
Both take more or less the same time to show a page, they just pushed it from the backend (old reddit) to the frontend (new reddit), but I'd say it is equally slow.
I'll stick to old reddit so they pay the bill (literally) for their ineptitude.
I'll stick to old reddit so they pay the bill (literally) for their ineptitude.