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Intel have gone a bit mad and paired 8 'performance' cores with 8 'efficient' ones. The former have hyperthreading and are faster than anything else. The latter have no HT and are apparently around skylake performance.
To make the most of this the OS needs to know which cores should be doing what. Windows 10 can't do that, but 11 has a new task scheduler specifically for it.
Alder Lake just out is faster, for similar prices. That said it eats power.