if you are looking for references for your future purchase, I'll say do not trust these numbers. sp3 is not like anything you have before, it's very sensitive to its thermal state, you would get totally different numbers in the different runs. my i7 got much lower scores than his, the lowest in fire strike was 466, even after undervolting it'd never gone higher than 560, here are my latest i7 scores this morning (normal core and gpu voltage):
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look like a different computer than his i7, right?
Its all relative. the best Ice Storm scores for Arm platforms (iPad Air & Androidz) is below 20,000. Even throttled the performance smokes what you can get out of Arm.
I appreciate the benchmarking data people are posting, sorry that it can be confusing at times or all the time. you wont find another platform in this size/weight with this performance right now. Tweaking firmware is a normal and usual activity and starting conservatively is not a bad thing. In two to three months things should be settled out.
If your primary use is sitting at one location doing intense graphics you should look elsewhere. i.e running a nine hour anything is not the target market for an SP3 IMO. However there's nothing stopping you from doing it if it suits you. 80-90% of users don't have those needs.
In 2002 I could run 2 virtual machines on a desktop computer and it was slow but it was the best you could do at the time. Now I could do the same thing on a 12" tablet with better performance and more displays even though I could do better on a bigger device. if use case suits your need or desire, do it but if it doesn't, don't.
Until A few days ago no one even had one of these to test with, give it a little time for people to determine what is feasible or be one of those on the edge that takes a chance and discovers what's possible. Sometimes you'll be surprised at the rewards of facing the challenge but its not for everyone and that's ok too.