Comment by userbinator

Unless they carefully considered issues such as memory timing, or actually ran all the CPUs at 1GHz, just scaling results by clock frequency will make the x86s look worse and the ARMs better, because the x86s have a bigger gap between core and memory speed. Anyone who has experience with PC overclocking will know this - increasing the core clock by e.g. 25% will not make any benchmark (except maybe the most trivial of microbenchmarks) result improve by that same amount, and the same goes for the other direction: A 3.4GHz i7 run at 1GHz will not be 3.4x slower. On the other hand (no pun intended), the ARMs have a native frequency closer to 1GHz and scaling their results will not introduce as much error.