Comment by RachelF

I wonder why? Some possibilities:

1. Extra silicon area being used by NPUs and TPUs instead of extra performance?

2. Passmark runs under Windows, which is probably using increasing overhead with newer versions?

3. Fixes for speculative execution vulnerabilities?

4. Most computers are now "fast enough" for the average user, no need to buy top end.

5. Intel's new CPUs are slower than the old ones