I am very impressed with the performance, I mean Qualcomm and Samsung gotta be pissed..
For a Dual-Core 1.3GHz to be faster than a Snapdragon 800 2.3Ghz quad-core. Even faster than than Baytrail. But Sandy..... come on.
There is not enough information here.
We do not know which programs were used to run these benchmarks in two different platforms, how those programs were compiled and which compiler and compiler version was used. Those variations alone can easily swing performance ± 100%, if not more.
Look at Anandtech's own benchmarks of A7. In most cases A7 performs similar to Baytrail and Qualcomm products. In many cases Intel's Atom is quicker. If 'Cyclone' is impressive then Intel and Qualcomm are not far behind.
Intel's biggest challenge is their inability to accept a lower profit margin rather than anything Apple or Qualcomm are selling. Qualcomm might be a bit behind but they have their own chips coming, so this game of leapfrog will continue until tablets and smartphones reach the 'good enough' plateau, like PCs.
Most ARM players have gone the wrong way in pursuing core count rather than IPC. Does it not remind you of the megapixel race in cheap plastic toy cameras we saw during the 2005-2010 era? Apple -at least- are fighting against the core count stupidity, good for them. Hopefully this gives other companies the balls to do the right thing rather than appease the lowest common denominator.
As for Samsung and their home grown Exynos....
meh. It is not performant enough to snatch high-end customers and delight the enthusiast crowd. It is not cheap enough to substitute Mediatek junk. Maybe they can buy nvidia when the latter go bankrupt and something good can emerge from the combined efforts.