[cosmotic]

What evidence are you using for that single core claim?

In 8 years, Ryzen went from 1166 geekbench 6 single core to 3398.

[withinboredom]

http://cpudb.stanford.edu/visualize/clock_frequency.html

[ossopite]

Single core performance isn't just clock frequency. It must be multiplied by average IPC, but really it's more difficult since you have to account for factors like new SIMD instructions. Effective IPC improvements are where a significant fraction of single core speedup came from in this period