[ZeroGravitas]

No, it's just the javascript engine is different (which you would think would make it a pretty bad benchmark by AnandTech's usual standards).

Though the shift from A8 to A9 and single to dual core and the emphasis on GPU means the CPU speed isn't the key metric it might have once been.

[Tyrannosaurs]

Yep, hopefully these will be the days where we understand that comparing numbers such as processor speed when literally everything else in the stack, both hardware and software, is different is a completely pointless exercise.

(EDIT: I know that a JavaScript benchmark isn't an example of this, this is more a general comment on people comment on phone specs at the moment).