Please don't take my excuses the wrong way, since I wish the performance in software reflected the increased performance of hardware, but we are comparing the performance of an operating system released five years prior to the CPU it is being run on to the performance of an operating system contemporary to the CPU. A couple of other things to note: the comparison uses a bleeding edge Intel processor for Windows NT and, to try to be polite about it, a processor optimized for energy efficiency for Windows 11. (If the tests depended upon CPU performance alone, the benchmarks for processor in the Surface Go 2 are comparable to my 11 year old i5 3330. That i5 wasn't even a high end processor at the time.) The second thing to consider is that performance gains were much more dramatic back then, so even if we could test Windows 11 on a 2026 processor, I wouldn't expect such dramatic results.