This thread and comments remind me of kids arguing who's dad is better
Intel will be fast and consume more power (especially at the top end) obviously the stay competitive. AMD will make it though and their CPUs will be also competitive. AMD has a node shrink Intel doesn't.
I get why there is no chipset change for Intel. RL is merely a refresh which tells a lot. Bump in clocks more cache e-cores number increase, power usage up. I would not be surprised if the e-cores were clocked lower than AL to save power since RL has more of them. Pcores need more juice so these need a bump thus 5.5ghz.
At least that is what I think.
The 7600X also destroys the 5950X in ST too. Zen 3 has relatively low clocks, that won't be the case for Zen 4, so that is one area Intel won't have an advantage anymore for ST.
That is kinda irrelevant. Compare it to a 12th gen CPUs to see the improvement not to a two year old CPU which is being replaced this year. Obviously RL is not competing with 5000 series ryzen.
Better focus on 12th gen vs 13th gen to see where the improvement is if there is any. How much better RL is vs AL and the question if AMD with the new ryzen can catch its performance at what power consumption cost.