[Someone]

I don’t see how it is flawed. The article doesn’t discuss whether the AMD CPU is faster than the Intel CPU, it discusses the claim "that the most recent AMD processors surpass Intel in terms of instructions per cycle” (https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_ryzen_7_3800x_revi...)

And IPC, IMO, is a better measurement for a chip’s design than pure speed, as it removes the “but how good a process do you have access to” from the equation.

[mda]

The article gives 2 benchmarks, I am pretty sure it is easy to mash up another benchmark with totally opposite results (e.g subset of specint). I found author's inclusion of an obviously skewed example as proof a little bit disingenuous as well.

Having said that in general Intel still holds a slight edge on pure Ipc. However, considering the terrible track record of security issues and abysmal price performance ratio, a slight edge on ipc can be ignored and I would not consider Intel for most workloads at the moment. Above all, actual application benchmark trumps any ipc microbencmark.