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CPU is hitting the usual limiters power/thermal, not a bad score on Cinebench R20, likely due to the two additional cores as the CPU is maxing out at around 2.8GHz. There's improvement, equally likely down to Intel, doubt Apple has done little if anything to the cooling solution, again...

The CPU's are far more capable and to me a fair number should be 3.8GHz/4GHz sustained, which is entirely possible. CPU at 100C is fine, however depending on design the surrounding components that are in close proximity are the weaker link.

8th Gen base 2.2GHz 8750H at it's best, as I've stated i9 with Apple is simply sales & marketing tactic, little else...

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Not sure what is your purpose here. You have been posting that in almost every single thread.
 
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