Taking the new Snapdragon 865, it has a geekbench5 single score of ~900 and multi score of ~3300. If I look up scores of my desktop Ryzen 5 1600, it has a single score of ~950 and multi ~5100.
Now I have trouble believing that mobile CPUs are this close to desktops in terms of single core performance, but are there any other benchmarks that could compare desktop CPUs and smartphone CPUs? I understand it's hard to compare ARM and x86, even more so when smartphone CPUs can't run at maximum performance indefinitely like desktops due to thermals, but if these scores are somewhat accurate and phone CPUs are closing in on desktops, wouldn't it mean that something like RPCS3, Xenia or Yuzu could
