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There was a hefty boost in multicore performance when the 8th generation Intel processors came out. A lot of equivalent models had the number of cores bumped up but sometimes a bit of a drop in the single core performance.
Compare something like i7-7500U and i7-8550u. Pretty equivalent in terms of place in the lineup when they were released but the 8th gen has double the cores.
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Never really looked at this before but quite interesting. Why for example under 'multi core' would recent MacBook pros absolutely destroy everything except iMac pro/Mac Pro? Whereas single core it's much of a muchness.
Thinking of trading my late 2015 iMac for a new macbook pro. The top mbp beats it on both counts but on single core only by 100 points or so.