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Not worth considering these benchmarks because there’s no effect, or because the system requirements for browsing the web are too low overall for there to be a perceptible difference?

In other words, of you were to actually measure page load speed, are you saying the measirements would correlate with the benchmarks?

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My guess is that a 10ms difference in network latency would be a bigger impact on page load times than the latest Zen2 vs Intel CPU.

In reality I think for general web browsing the difference, if it exists at all, in either direction, would not be perceptible.

I know that's not EXACTLY what you're asking, but I think it's worth mentioning the practical aspect as well.

That seems to have been the "common wisdom" for a while now, but I'm not so sure that it holds so much today. With everybody coming out with bloated SPAs is it possible that faster processors will start to be required for normal web work?

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