Because you and everyone else knows you don’t measure efficiency by how much something costs.
Thanks, totally agreed. That's why current pricing efficiency comparisons are silly.
But 2 cpus released at the same time, with the same msrp and the same name (I mean amd deliberately chose the intel naming scheme to make direct comparisons straightforward) are as direct competitors as they could possibly ever be. What much more do you need to directly compare 2 cpus?
And the funny thing is I'm not in disagreement with you. Yes, exactly as you already mentioned, an 8core cpu has no chance in hell even under ln2 to match a 16 core cpu in MT performance. That's PRECISELY the problem, and precisely the reason intel wins in Mt efficiency. Because they simply offer more cores at each given msrp.
It's not unfair comparing these 2 cpus, what's unfair is amd releasing 8core chips and pretending they are i7 competitors and asking i7 prices. They are not. They aren't even i5 competitors. And they don't seem to have learned the lesson, if rumors are true the 9700X is going for 399 again. 399!!! A cpu that most probably will be losing to a freaking 2 generations old 13700k.... Yes, most likely it will be even be losing in efficiency. Is it unfair as well to compare a 2 year old i7 to a brand new R7 in ISO efficiency? I mean come on..
Only In your head. I just showed the i9 hitting 400w in the anandtech Review.
Because it runs with unlimited (4096w) power limits. Have you actually tried one or are we going with "trust me bro"?
This is a tech forum man. I get you people hate intel but please, please, can we at least TRY to stick to facts? It's really not that hard. Stop spreading missinformation, please.