what is the difference between using or not Spring Beans?

Probably i'll get a lot of downvotes, but it's so confusing for me all this fact of whether use beans or not. Lets suppose this example

interface ICurrency {
       String getSymbol();
}


public class CurrencyProcessor {

    private ICurrency currency ;

    public CurrencyProcessor(ICurrency currency) {
        this.currency = currency;
    }

    public void doOperation(){
        String symbol = currency.getSymbol();
        System.out.println("Doing process with " + symbol + " currency");
        // Some process...
    }

}

So, to inject the ICurrency impl injection i think that i can do it by two ways:

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Way 1: Without Spring beans

public class CurrencyOperator {

    private ICurrency currency ;
    private CurrencyProcessor processor;

    public void operateDefault(){
        currency = new USDollarCurrency();
        processor = new CurrencyProcessor(currency)
        this.processor.doOperation();
    }

}

Where USDollarCurrency is an ICurrency interface implementation

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Way 2: Using Spring beans

@ContextConfiguration(classes = CurrencyConfig.class)
public class CurrencyOperator {

    @Autowired private ICurrency currency ;
    @Autowired private CurrencyProcessor processor;

    public void operateDefault(){
        this.processor.doOperation();
    }

}

@Configuration
public class CurrencyConfig {

    @Bean
    public CurrencyProcessor currencyProcessor() {
        return new CurrencyProcessor(currency());
    }

    @Bean
    public ICurrency currency() {
        return new USDollarCurrency();
}

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I really don't understand what would be the benefits of using Spring's beans. I read some things but what i most found was about the benefits of using DI, and as i understand, both ways are injecting the dependency that CurrencyProcessor require, what is changing is the way that i am creating and using objets, am i wrong? So in concrete, my questions are: 1. What are the benefits of using Beans at this case? 2. Why should i use Spring instead of doing it manually like first way? 3. Talking about performance, which of this cases is better?