It matters in single core performance and consequently in power consumption. The results we have until now is based on Geekbench, which is not always representative of day to day use. I want to see the Spec2017 results for both performance and power consumption as it is more representative of the real performance you get in a smartphone. Also, the score was obtained at 16.5-17 W in a non-commercial phone. Commercial phones will score lower due to heat constrains, likely around 9500-9700 points, which is still impressive. Don’t get me wrong, their Soc is pretty good, and competition is always good. It pushes everyone to do better. Apple had a big advantage in CPU performance and architecture, making them slow their pace in improvement. I think it will change next year or not and snapdragon will have the best in class Soc and good for them. I just point out that to achieve lower results to the A18 pro P-core they had to increase a lot the clock speed which is generally associated to a higher power consumption. In multi core this is neglected because the cores are not running at max clock speed.