Shortly after Valve launched the long-awaited Steam Machine, reviews were quick to point out its middling performance and high price, with the gaming console scoring in between the AMD Radeon RX 6600 and 7600 in gaming tests. As it turns out, one of the compromises Valve made in order to launch the ...
Crippled is just click/rage bait. The largest difference was about 20%. But most games was much less.
While it might be click/rage bait, my personal inflection point in performance impact is whether the difference is in single or double digit percentage points.