Comment by adrian_b

With Intel 4, Intel has not succeeded to obtain clock frequencies as high as with Intel 7, which is why the older Raptor Lake laptop CPUs still beat the Meteor Lake CPUs in single-threaded benchmarks.

Moreover, the new Intel 4 process had low fabrication yields, so Intel has produced less Meteor Lake CPUs than it could have sold.

Nevertheless, the Intel 4 process has demonstrated a much greater energy efficiency than the previous Intel 7 process, which is why the Meteor Lake CPUs beat easily the older Intel CPUs in multithreaded benchmarks, where the CPU performance is limited by the power consumption.