[MikePlacid]

Thank you for the link. It helped me to find the actual performance difference. It is significant:

AMD’s performance improves by 1.32x – 1.37x overall… changing what looked like a narrow victory [for Intel] over the 3960X and a good showing against the 3970X into an all-out loss. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/302650-how-to-bypass-m...