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by Sanddancer 3342 days ago
There's something screwy with how that benchmark is done on an 8 core processor. Comparing a quad core Ryzen 5 1500X at 3.5Ghz to a quad core i7 7700 at 3.6Ghz, the difference is 10423/10843, or a difference of 4%. The biggest difference comes down to AMD seems very conservative about their base clock speeds for Ryzen. Against each other at similar clocks, the single core performance is near identical.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+5+1500X&id...

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-7700+%...