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ELI5- Why do cellphones that are very small seem to have specs that rival much larger PCs?

I'm not saying top end PCs, but a lot of cell phones seem to have incredible specs in such a small package, 8gb ram and processors at around 3ghz?, in such a tiny device? How is that possible? The only thing I don't think they have is Graphics cards, is there a difference in 8GB of cell phone RAM and 8 GB of PC RAM? Or 3ghz in a cell phone vs 3ghz in a computer? Are they actually on the same scale?
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The ram is roughly the same as in a PC, but mobile processors are far less powerful.

The GHz of a processor just tells you the cycles per second, but not how much work is done by each cycle. Imagine you've got a kid with a spoon and a bloke with a shovel, both digging once per second; they're both going at the same 'speed', but going to shift vastly different amounts of dirt.