A Geekbench 5 entry for Intel's cheapest Alder Lake processor, the Celeron G6900, has shown that despite the chip's meager specifications, it matches or slightly beats the Intel Core i9-10900K in single-core performance. The results are surprising since the Celeron G6900 only has an MSRP of US$42.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/A-US-42-Alder-Lake-Celeron-CPU-packs-enough-grunt-to-match-Intel-Core-i9-10900K-s-single-core-performance.592579.0.html